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

2. What did the CDC report about breast cancer disparities between white and Black people?
(a) Black and white women get breast cancer at about the same rate, but Black women die at higher rates from breast cancer than white women do.
(b) Black women get breast cancer at higher rates than white women do.
(c) Black women have less access to treatments for breast cancer than white women do.
(d) Black women see doctors at lower rates than white women do.

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

4. How old was Rankine when she met her husband?
(a) 45.
(b) 35.
(c) 30.
(d) 25.

5. Whose cells did researchers use for genetic experiments without her consent?
(a) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(b) Harriet Tubman.
(c) Rosa Parks.
(d) Henrietta Lacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part IV, what does Rankine write that a "force within the whiteness" does?

2. What does Rankine write that she would have preferred from the woman who tried to change the subject from racism at the dinner party instead of "false civility"?

3. How did khaki pants and the color khaki begin to become fashionable in America in the 1950s?

4. Which Latino poet does Rankine discuss briefly with her friend in Part IV?

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

(see the answer key)

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