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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 did police often ask Rankine and her husband when they were pulled over in New York City and New Jersey?
(a) How much money they had.
(b) How they knew each other.
(c) Whether they had weapons.
(d) Where they were going.

2. In Part IV, what does Rankine write that a "force within the whiteness" does?
(a) Brings privilege to bear.
(b) Wins the fights.
(c) Silences Blacks.
(d) Forces the whiteness.

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

4. What does Rankine refer to when she uses the term "R and R" in Part III?
(a) Rest and Relaxation.
(b) Reconstruction and Remorse.
(c) Ruminations and Reparations.
(d) Reparations and Reconstruction.

5. What word or phrase did Joyelle McSweeney define that Rankine includes in Part II?
(a) Peripheral racism.
(b) Illusory racism.
(c) Necropastoral.
(d) Fungeal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rankine think is the probable outcome of her conversations at the dinner party in Part III?

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

3. What does one white man tell Rankine he believes is his greatest privilege in his life in Part III?

4. What does one dinner party guest try to turn people's attention to to change the subject from racism that Rankine brings up?

5. 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"?

(see the answer key)

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