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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 Rankine identify as her "most corrupt thought of the year" in Part II?
(a) She wondered if she had been passed over for a promotion because she is a Black woman.
(b) She wanted to find out what her supervisor really thought of her.
(c) She wondered if her daughter would get into college.
(d) She hesitated to go to her daughter's parent-teacher conference because she did not want the teacher's potential anti-Black bias to be conferred onto her daughter.

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

3. What does Rankine believe is foundational to all our problems in America?
(a) Poisoned water systems.
(b) Anti-Black racism.
(c) Economic inequality.
(d) Unequal access to higher education.

4. What specific topic did George Wallace run successfully on?
(a) Trying to reverse the outcome of the Civil War.
(b) Segregation.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Defeating the Voting Rights Act.

5. What phrase do people who want to excuse men's inappropriate or even abusive behavior towards women often say, according to Rankine?
(a) You can not have an omlette without breaking some eggs.
(b) Boys will be boys.
(c) They made him do it.
(d) It is what it is.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which city in Virginia did a white supremacist rally take place in 2017?

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

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

4. What does Rankine refer to "the gloom" in her poem in Part III?

5. What does Rankine write is "its own form of American optimism" in Part II?

(see the answer key)

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