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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 claim of psychologist Kristina Olson's does Rankine cite on children and racial preferences?
(a) By about 15 years of age, American children show no real racial preferences.
(b) By 3 or 4 years of age, white children in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Europe show preferences for other white children.
(c) By about 3 months old, American, Canadia, and Australian children show some signs of racial preferences.
(d) By about 10 years of age, American children show racial preferences.

2. What does the sign the man in the photograph on page 140 of this book say?
(a) I am not white male privilege.
(b) No whites, no service.
(c) I do not have enough food to eat; how can I be privileged?
(d) I am not ashamed/afraid to be white.

3. Why did Rankine bolster the security at her own home?
(a) Some of her partners at the university had been targeted for work similar to hers.
(b) Her children had been harassed at school.
(c) Her neighbor's house had been broken into recently.
(d) She had received a flurry of hate mail.

4. What question does a white man ask his female partner in an airport line that greatly turns Rankine and other passengers off in Part IV?
(a) Are you stupid?
(b) Why can you never do anything right?
(c) Do you not realize how fat you are?
(d) Do you want me to hit you?

5. In which city in Virginia did a white supremacist rally take place in 2017?
(a) Charlottesville.
(b) Dubray.
(c) Arlington.
(d) Front Royal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the white female judge say in Part IV about her son that shocks Rankine?

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

3. What does the document Notes on the State of Virginia say that Blacks are much inferior to whites in?

4. What does Rankine write that George Wallace attributed his political success to?

5. What word did a preschool teacher for a friend of Rankine's four-year old son use for the child when he had a temper tantrum at school?

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