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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. Which Indiana police captain challenges another police captain over an issue of white privilege in a transcript in Part III?
(a) Rainie Blackenship.
(b) Penny Holder.
(c) Carri Weber.
(d) Riley Winston.

2. What does Rankine say to her white friend at the end of the play they see together in Part III?
(a) I didn't know you were Black.
(b) I didn't know you were racist.
(c) I didn't know you had this much hate in your heart.
(d) I didn't know you didn't like me.

3. What did Rankine identify as her "most corrupt thought of the year" in Part II?
(a) She wanted to find out what her supervisor really thought of her.
(b) She hesitated to go to her daughter's parent-teacher conference because she did not want the teacher's potential anti-Black bias to be conferred onto her daughter.
(c) She wondered if she had been passed over for a promotion because she is a Black woman.
(d) She wondered if her daughter would get into college.

4. What phrase do people who want to excuse men's inappropriate or even abusive behavior towards women often say, according to Rankine?
(a) They made him do it.
(b) It is what it is.
(c) Boys will be boys.
(d) You can not have an omlette without breaking some eggs.

5. How did Scott Arndt react to hearing the phrase "white male privilege" from a colleague?
(a) He said it aroused suspicion in him.
(b) He said it was fair.
(c) He said it was extremely offensive.
(d) He said he thought it was a sad day for America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rankine's white friend tell her about why she refused to follow the play's instructions at the end of the play in Part III?

2. What did Rankine and her husband spend much of their time doing for the past several decades?

3. What event occurred in Washington D.C. on August 8, 1925?

4. Which fashion brand does Rankine write cultivated an aura of the white, wealthy country-club set throughout the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s?

5. Which experiment results were used in the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case to show the adverse effect of racism on Black children?

(see the answer key)

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