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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 Rankine identify as her "most corrupt thought of the year" in Part II?
(a) She wanted to find out what her supervisor really thought of her.
(b) She wondered if she had been passed over for a promotion because she is a Black woman.
(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. Who wrote the play Rankine goes to see in Part III with a white friend?
(a) Leslie Hinds.
(b) Stephen Retrow.
(c) Neil Simon.
(d) Jackie Sibblies Drury.

3. What phrase does Rankine's seatmate on a flight in Part I say that Rankine says pulls an emergency brake in her brain?
(a) I don't see color.
(b) I do not experience white privilege.
(c) I do not think Black Lives Matter is a legitimate organization.
(d) I am not a racist.

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

5. What was the 2017 white supremacist rally in Virginia supposedly organized to respond to?
(a) Calls to remove the Confederate statue in Charlottesville.
(b) A new book by a prominent Black legal scholar.
(c) Affirmative action.
(d) The election of the first Black president.

Short Answer Questions

1. What illness did Rankine suffer and recover from?

2. What is the audience instructed to do at the end of the play in Part III?

3. What does the sign the man in the photograph on page 140 of this book say?

4. Which city in Michigan suffered from lead-tainted water?

5. What does one white man whose son did not gain entry by early admission to Yale tell Rankine he thinks is part of the problem?

(see the answer key)

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