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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. Where does Rankine say the phrase "people of color" originally came from?
(a) The court case Brown v. The Board of Education.
(b) The great migration.
(c) The court case Loving v. Virginia.
(d) Women of color.

2. What does Rankine repeatedly say she wants for her daughter?
(a) The freedom to be the artist she can be.
(b) A good college education.
(c) A country where her daughter can be Vice President.
(d) The world.

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

4. Which of the following situations arose in which a white woman filmed and threatened a Black man in Part IV?
(a) A white woman questioned whether a Black man lived in his own apartment building and told him she was uncomfortable with him entering it.
(b) A white woman accused a Black man of threatening her life when he asked her to put her dog on a leash.
(c) A white woman accused a Black man of stealing her cell phone with no evidence.
(d) A white woman questioned whether a Black man was really a police officer when, in fact, he was.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What claim of psychologist Kristina Olson's does Rankine cite on children and racial preferences?

3. What book of Wendy Travino's does Rankine's friend ask if she has read in Part IV?

4. Which writer refers to "the afterlife of slavery"?

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

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