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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Black MP's comments touched off a Twitter firestorm of criticism and comments in 2012?
(a) Marcia Blackhall.
(b) Reni Lorton.
(c) Diane Abbott.
(d) Jamila Priya.

2. Which white nationalist party was formed in Britain in 1967?
(a) The Starwalt Front.
(b) The National Front.
(c) The Back to Front.
(d) The Supreme Front.

3. What organization did Rachel Fleming found in 1927?
(a) The Keys and Club Society.
(b) The Liverpool Association for the Welfare of Half-Caste Children.
(c) The White People Freeing Black People Society.
(d) The Pediatric Society for All British Children.

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

5. A 2009 report from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission found that what percentage of all Black men living in Britain were on the National DNA Database?
(a) 15%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 50%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city did Martin Luther King Jr. write a famous letter from a jail cell in in 1963?

2. What year was the decision from the inquest on Stephen Lawrence's death announced?

3. When did Eddo-Lodge begin to think about Black British history?

4. Which archaic law gave the police in Britain the power to stop, search and arrest anyone they suspected might commit a crime and that the police often used in the 1970s?

5. Which slave ship's image did abolitionist William Elford publish in 1788?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is structural racism often so difficult to hold to account, according to Eddo-Lodge?

2. How does Eddo-Lodge define white privilege, and what qualifier does she attach to it?

3. What does Eddo-Lodge argue the U.S. struggle against racism has done to the British struggle against racism?

4. Why does Eddo-Lodge view this book as a paradox of sorts?

5. In Chapter 3, what devastating question did Eddo-Lodge ask her mother when she was four years old about race?

6. Why was Guy Bailey's rejection for a job at the British Omnibus Company significant?

7. How does Eddo-Lodge describe her own original blog post about talking about race to white people?

8. What did the police do to Cherry Groce in 1985?

9. What was the significance of the word "mugging" in Britain in the 1970s?

10. What is racism often confused with, and what is the difference between the two, according to Eddo-Lodge?

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