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

2. What was the 2017 white supremacist rally in Virginia supposedly organized to respond to?
(a) Calls to remove the Confederate statue in Charlottesville.
(b) A new book by a prominent Black legal scholar.
(c) Affirmative action.
(d) The election of the first Black president.

3. What does Rankine quote comedian Chris Rock as saying in Part IV?
(a) Black people's humor comes from much tragedy.
(b) No white man in the audience would change places with him, and he is rich.
(c) Black people are survivors and white people could learn from that.
(d) White people should walk in his shoes for one day.

4. What does Notes on the State of Virginia conclude about the memories of Blacks and whites?
(a) They are about equal.
(b) Blacks have better memories than whites.
(c) White children have better memories than Black adults.
(d) Whites have better memories than Blacks.

5. How did khaki pants and the color khaki begin to become fashionable in America in the 1950s?
(a) Families liked them because they were easy to wash.
(b) They helped kids blend into their surroundings so as not to attract unwanted attention.
(c) Returning soldiers from the war brought their army-issued khakis to campus to wear.
(d) Fashion brands starting having their models wear them to parks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which senator does Rankine identify as having tried to justify white voters' reluctance to vote for Black candidates in the 2018 midterm elections?

2. 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?

3. Which U.S. senator once said, "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be in the front row"?

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

5. Which poet described love partially as "a close reading"?

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