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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 209 - 266).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the audience instructed to do at the end of the play in Part III?
(a) They were asked to pull the fire alarms in the theater.
(b) White audience members were invited onto the stage and Black audience members were asked to stay in their seats.
(c) They were asked to get a glass of water and take it outside.
(d) They were asked to clap very loudly.

2. What does Rankine say she wants her daughter to be able to "negotiate the world" with?
(a) Faith in the police.
(b) Emphatic imagination.
(c) Optimism.
(d) Justice.

3. In what year did the Smithsonian Institution put on its first major show focused on the work of Latinos?
(a) 2013.
(b) 2010.
(c) 2020.
(d) 2008.

4. What illness did Rankine suffer and recover from?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) A heart attack.
(c) Pancreatic cancer.
(d) Breast cancer.

5. Why is Rankine so mad at her friend for not following the instructions at the play in Part III?
(a) She thinks it was her friend's way of showing how much more money she had than Rankine had.
(b) She thinks it was disrespectful to the playwright and that it was also a way of exercising white privilege.
(c) She thinks it demonstrates her friend's lifelong racist behavior.
(d) She thinks it was insulting to Martin Luther King Jr.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of public school teachers are white, according to the National Center for Education Statistics' data for 2015-16?

2. What rhetorical question does Rankine ask following the 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearings about the differences in how Americans treat young Black men and young white men?

3. What year was the document Notes on the State of Virginia written in?

4. What does Rankine refer to when she uses the term "R and R" in Part III?

5. What does Notes on the State of Virginia conclude that the Black race could not produce?

(see the answer key)

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