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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 does Rankine say she wants her daughter to be able to "negotiate the world" with?
(a) Emphatic imagination.
(b) Optimism.
(c) Justice.
(d) Faith in the police.

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

3. What does Rankine say to her white friend at the end of the play they see together in Part III?
(a) I didn't know you were Black.
(b) I didn't know you had this much hate in your heart.
(c) I didn't know you were racist.
(d) I didn't know you didn't like me.

4. Which poet described love partially as "a close reading"?
(a) Adrienne Richardson.
(b) Emily Dickinson.
(c) Fabrize Fabricant.
(d) Erica Hunt.

5. What event did Rankine recall having heard about occuring on her college campus the year before she attended as a freshman?
(a) A lynching.
(b) A cross burning.
(c) A police-involved killing.
(d) A mass shooting.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was the word "privilege" first used, according to Rankine?

3. Which social justice activist talked often about the so-called culture of whiteness?

4. What does Rankine write that college admissions processes are full of?

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

(see the answer key)

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