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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. According to Eddo-Lodge, what does racism bring with it along with a disempowerment for those affected by it?
2. Which Black MP's comments touched off a Twitter firestorm of criticism and comments in 2012?
3. Who was shot by the police in her own home and subsequently paralyzed by her injury?
4. What organization did Rachel Fleming found in 1927?
5. Why did Eddo-Lodge ask her mother at age 4 when she was going to "turn white"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the police do to Cherry Groce in 1985?
2. In Chapter 3, what devastating question did Eddo-Lodge ask her mother when she was four years old about race?
3. Where were almost all of Britain's slaves brought to work in the 1700s and 1800s?
4. Why does Eddo-Lodge write in the Preface that she has to be very careful about entering into conversation about race with defiant white people?
5. Why did so many people react negatively to MP Diane Abbott's tweet about race in 2012?
6. What did Martin Luther King Jr. write in his letter from a Birmingham jail cell about shallow understanding from people of goodwill?
7. What was the significance of the word "mugging" in Britain in the 1970s?
8. How does Eddo-Lodge use the phrase "people of color" in her book?
9. What happened to Stephen Lawrence in 1993?
10. How does Eddo-Lodge describe her own original blog post about talking about race to white people?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What was the result of the British Bus Boycott in 1965 and why does Eddo-Lodge think it was a significant historical event? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 2
"Demands for equality need to be as complicated as the inequalities they attempt to address," Eddo-Lodge writes (183). Write an essay explaining what this statement means in the larger context of the book, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 3
How does Eddo-Lodge think, in general, attitudes towards racism among people of color began to change after the 2016 Brexit vote in the U.K.? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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