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

2. What does Rankine outright accuse the other guests at the dinner party of doing to her in trying to change the subject away from racism?
(a) Being as bad as the president himself.
(b) Trying to get her fired.
(c) Being complicit in violence.
(d) Silencing her.

3. What does conversing risk mean, according to Rankine in Part IV?
(a) Persecution.
(b) The unraveling of the said and the unsaid.
(c) Silence.
(d) Destruction.

4. What does the Eve Fowler print in Rankine's home say?
(a) Your truth is your truth.
(b) When we are old, we can sleep.
(c) Far from roses this way goes.
(d) Anyone telling anything is telling that thing.

5. What is the name of former First Lady Michelle Obama's memoir, which Rankine references in Part III?
(a) Finding My Voice.
(b) Homegoing.
(c) Becoming.
(d) Unwinding.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What television series starring Reese Witherspoon does Rankine reference in the text in Part III?

4. Which writer who gave a June 1981 keynote presentation at the National Women's Studies Association Conference that Rankine quotes from in Part III?

5. Who said, "I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife?"

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