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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author describe the passenger in her car telling her in Chapter 1?
(a) "He didn't care for his family or his friends."
(b) "That his dean is making him hire a person of color when there are so many great writers out there."
(c) "That his work was examining race in America."
(d) "That his wife is leaving him for the dean with whom she's been having an affair."

2. In Chapter 3, the author describes Judith Baker discussing what makes language hurtful. She writes that Baker's response is "We suffer from the condition of being" what?
(a) "Superior."
(b) "Frightened."
(c) "Addressable."
(d) "Angry."

3. Where does author Claudia Rankine teach?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) Pomona College.
(c) The University of California, Berkeley.
(d) Brown University.

4. When was the film Beau Travail released?
(a) 2001.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2009.
(d) 1997.

5. The author writes in Chapter 3, "After considering Butler's remarks, you begin to understand yourself as rendered" what?
(a) "Hyper-visible in the face of such language acts."
(b) "Entrapped by the fact of race."
(c) "Silent by the greed of others."
(d) "Infuriated by the examples of injustice."

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes in Chapter 6, "In a landscape drawn from an ocean bed, you can't drive yourself" what?

2. What word from Chapter 6 means to represent something as being beautiful?

3. What phrase is repeated in the second of the prints that is displayed in Chapter 3?

4. Who directed the film Beau Travail?

5. What does the author claim "isn't a cure for feeling, it is a clean displacement of effort, will, and disappointment" in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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