BTWM: Self-Awareness Test (pp. 88 - 108)

What does the author recall always having, even when times were hard?

• Money.

• Power.

• Family and friends.

• Intelligience.

What did the author notice about white children in Manhattan?

• They were fearless.

• They clung to their parents.

• They were hungry.

• There were very few of them.

How did the author feel when he strolled his young son through a traditionally white neighborhood?

• Safe

• Angry

• Proud

• Uncomfortable

What concern does the author have about the lessons he is trying to teach his son?

• That others will make fun of his son.

• That his son will be embarrassed by him.

• That others will tell his son it is an unnecessary part of the past.

• That his son will grow bitter and cynical.

What does the author mean when he says black children are told to be "twice as good?"

• It is a code for watching out for police officers.

• It is a subtle threat for a beating.

• They are being warned to be streetwise and tough,

• They are expected to behave better than white children when in public.

What does the author imagine white parents might tell their children?

• Be twice as nice.

• Take twice as much.

• Be twice as fearful.

• Be twice as successful.

According tot he author, what has his son never feared?

• His body.

• Health.

• People.

• Safety.

Why was the author ashamed of his thoughts as he took his four-year old son to preschool?

• He did not want his son in a multi-cultural classroom.

• He was angry that the teachers were white.

• He was jealous of the advantages he was providing for his son.

• He was afraid for his son's safety among all the strange children.

Why was the author's son pushed off the escalator?

• He had fallen asleep.

• He was trying to walk up the escalator.

• He was afraid to step off the platform.

• He was moving slowly.

How did the author react to his son being pushed off the escalator?

• He hit the woman who pushed his son.

• He shoved the woman who pushed his son.

• He spoke sharply to the woman who pushed his son.

• He picked up his son and left silently.