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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Chapter 4 - Chapter 5 (Pages 117 - 160).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Stephen Lawrence with when he was stabbed to death in 1993?
(a) Marshall Windstead.
(b) Robert Bannon.
(c) Daniel Chimanda.
(d) Duwayne Brooks.

2. What year was the decision from the inquest on Stephen Lawrence's death announced?
(a) 2003.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2000.

3. Why did the nearly 500 people from the Caribbean come to Britain in 1948 on the Windrush ship?
(a) To become priests and other faith leaders.
(b) To go to university and then return to their countries.
(c) To work as indentured servants to the government, the modern form of slavery.
(d) To fill work shortages created by WWII.

4. What is the term Eddo-Lodge uses throughout the book that expresses the idea of actively trying to increase racial diversity across the public and private sectors in the U.K.?
(a) Diversified hiring.
(b) Affirmative action.
(c) Positive discrimination.
(d) Blind hiring.

5. What was Britain's first race-relations act, The Race Relations Act, passed?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1965.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the sign that Robert Relf put outside his house for sale in 1976 say?

2. Where were the majority of Britain's plantations in the 1700s and 1800s?

3. What did Stephen Lawrence's case teach Eddo-Lodge?

4. What organization did Rachel Fleming found in 1927?

5. Which politician told crowds in 1968 that soon, the Black man would "have the whip hand" over the white man in Britain?

(see the answer key)

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