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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 135 - 208).

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) Where they were going.
(b) Whether they had weapons.
(c) How they knew each other.
(d) How much money they had.

2. How does the document Notes on the State of Virginia characterize the griefs of Black people?
(a) They are transient.
(b) They are nonexistant.
(c) They are lengthy.
(d) They are deep.

3. Which writer who gave a June 1981 keynote presentation at the National Women's Studies Association Conference that Rankine quotes from in Part III?
(a) Toni Morrison.
(b) Maya Angelou.
(c) Amanda Gorman.
(d) Audre Lorde.

4. How does the writer Rachel Kaadzi Ghanash describe the online community of violent white supremacists like the 2015 Charleston church shooter?
(a) They are highly educated, middle-aged, white, and heavily armed.
(b) They are white, young, heavily armed, and usually extremely socially awkward.
(c) They are mixed-race, somewhat educated, older, and heavily armed.
(d) They are young, heavily armed, and usually employed in well-paid jobs.

5. What source does Rankine recommend for an extended argument for integration?
(a) Alex Haley's Roots.
(b) Elizabeth Anderson's The Imperative of Integration.
(c) Toni Morrison's Beloved.
(d) Plato's The Cave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Eve Fowler print in Rankine's home say?

2. Which of the following does Rankine write that the "root of chastise" is?

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

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

5. What was the 2017 white supremacist rally in Virginia supposedly organized to respond to?

(see the answer key)

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