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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 subject did philosopher Charles Mills and sociologist Wulf Hund edit a volume of essays about?
(a) The history of the American Civil War.
(b) Simianization.
(c) Reparations.
(d) The history of slavery in Britain.

2. What trope does Rankine worry she is "sailing closer" to in Part III?
(a) That of the tough boss.
(b) That of the overbearing mother.
(c) That of the angry Black woman.
(d) That of the strident academic woman.

3. What television series starring Reese Witherspoon does Rankine reference in the text in Part III?
(a) Little Fires Everywhere.
(b) Big Little Lies.
(c) Wysteria Lane.
(d) Homecoming.

4. What is one possible reason Rankine thinks white people do not develop close friendships with Black people?
(a) White people do not want to be confronted by white violence against Black people.
(b) White people feel too guilty about white violence to have close friendships with Black people.
(c) White people are uncomfortable by the income gap between white and Black people.
(d) White people do not know enough Black people.

5. Why did one white friend of Rankine's tell her she had to defend her to her other white friends often?
(a) Because the white friends did not understand Rankine's academic work.
(b) Because the white friends thought Rankine was too serious.
(c) Because the white friends thought Rankine was a radical.
(d) Because the white friends thought Rankine did not like them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rankine think about the preschool teacher's tears when her friend removed her young son from the private school?

2. Who did Malcolm X say was the most disrespected, unprotected, and neglected person in America?

3. Who wrote the play Rankine goes to see in Part III with a white friend?

4. What event did Rankine recall having heard about occuring on her college campus the year before she attended as a freshman?

5. Why does one white man tell Rankine he is comfortable around Black people?

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