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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Steele define 'objective correlative'?

2. Statistically, what group is much more likely to drop out of college?

3. What did Steele say he noticed on his college campus with regard to ethnic conflict?

4. How did Steele say affirmative action be seen as a barrier to blacks?

5. As per Steele, as a result of the social policy change due to the black power movement, what was the status of race relations?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. encourage black students to do? How did it affect the black students at Steele's school?

2. What was the dilemma Steele faced with regard to affirmative action and his children's education?

3. According to Steele, how do objective correlatives affect blacks?

4. How did Steele say whites use 'escapism'?

5. What shift did Steele notice on his college campus with regard to ethnic conflict?

6. From Steele's experience, how do blacks from the poor class receive middle class blacks?

7. How does Steele believe affirmative action relates to racism?

8. How did Steele mention affirmative action can be viewed as a barrier to black progress?

9. How did Steele say the status change of poor blacks affected the status of middle class blacks?

10. Did Steele say that racial identity throughout the 60's changed? If so, how?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the response that Steele notes when he spoke to white students about campus racial tension? What do their responses reveal about their internal feelings of race relations?

Essay Topic 2

Rather than doing away with insecurity, Steele noted many blacks respond to the anti-self mindset with denial. What do they deny? What is an example of something they would say or do to exhibit this denial?

Essay Topic 3

Steele points out that the only way to resolve racial issues is to approach them with moral consciousness rather than racial consciousness. What is moral consciousness? What is racial consciousness? What type of 'consciousness' did Steele say blacks had until the early 60's? What was their 'consciousness' from the late 60's to the 70's? What effect did this have on blacks?

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