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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where were the majority of Britain's plantations in the 1700s and 1800s?
(a) The Micronesian Islands.
(b) East Asia.
(c) Eastern Europe.
(d) The Caribbean.

2. How does Eddo-Lodge define "people of color" in this book?
(a) Only Native Americans.
(b) Black people, Native Americans, and Asians.
(c) Only Black people.
(d) Anyone of any race that is not white.

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

4. Which American sports organization announced measures to address the lack of Black managers in the sport in 2002?
(a) The National Hockey League.
(b) The National Tennis League.
(c) The National Football League.
(d) The National Basketball Association.

5. What was the word Eddo-Lodge's white readers used most often to describe their feelings about her 2014 blog post on race that prompted her to write this book?
(a) Angering.
(b) Heartbreaking.
(c) Savage.
(d) Bewildering.

6. What city did Martin Luther King Jr. write a famous letter from a jail cell in in 1963?
(a) Jackson, Mississippi.
(b) Atlanta, Georgia.
(c) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(d) Birmingham, Alabama.

7. What prompted the Brixton riots in 1981?
(a) The police force's Operation Swamp.
(b) The police shooting of Douglas Rabar.
(c) The police beating of an unarmed Black man.
(d) The police beating of a young Black woman.

8. About how many Black 16- to 24-year-olds were out of work in the U.K. in 2012?
(a) 25%.
(b) 80%.
(c) 45%.
(d) 10%.

9. In the 1980s, which political party did Britain's settled Black and brown people mostly belong to?
(a) Conservative.
(b) Labour.
(c) Whigs.
(d) Torys.

10. What city in Wales was the site of race riots on June 6, 1919?
(a) Martinique.
(b) Ainsway.
(c) Anglesea.
(d) Newport.

11. Which ethnic group of people in the U.K. are the most at risk to be admitted to psychiatric hospitals under the compulsory powers of the Mental Health Act, according to a 2003 NHS England report?
(a) Asian people.
(b) African and African Caribbean people.
(c) White people.
(d) Indian people.

12. What racist comment did Jessica's mother make about her father that upset her?
(a) A comment about her father's cooking skills.
(b) A comment about her father's lack of intelligence.
(c) A comment about the large size of Jessica's father's penis.
(d) A comment about her father's accent.

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

14. What work by Lee Mun Wah does Eddo-Lodge mention in the Preface as touching to her?
(a) The Color of Fear.
(b) The Color of Water.
(c) The Color Purple.
(d) Half Blind.

15. What were the group of young white men in the late 1950s who wore creeper shoes and shirts and who set upon the streets to assault Black people called?
(a) Teddy boys.
(b) Redneck boys.
(c) Good old boys.
(d) Flagrant boys.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Eddo-Lodge agonize over including an interview with in this book, as she stated in the Preface?

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

3. In Part II, what does Eddo-Lodge conclude that seeing race is essential to in relation to racism?

4. Which transportation company did Guy Bailey interview with in 1965?

5. Who first coined the phrase "white privilege"?

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