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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. 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 thought Rankine did not like them.
(b) Because the white friends did not understand Rankine's academic work.
(c) Because the white friends thought Rankine was a radical.
(d) Because the white friends thought Rankine was too serious.

2. What does Rankine's white friend tell her about why she refused to follow the play's instructions at the end of the play in Part III?
(a) She had to take a phone call instead.
(b) She did not want to.
(c) She had never been to a play like that before and she thought the instructions were a joke.
(d) She felt sick and could not stand up.

3. What is the audience instructed to do at the end of the play in Part III?
(a) They were asked to get a glass of water and take it outside.
(b) White audience members were invited onto the stage and Black audience members were asked to stay in their seats.
(c) They were asked to pull the fire alarms in the theater.
(d) They were asked to clap very loudly.

4. What does Rankine's white male friend send her from the diversity workshop he attends?
(a) Crazy emojis.
(b) Desperate looks.
(c) Flowers.
(d) A request that she call him and manufacture a reason for him to have to leave.

5. What is the title of the class Rankine teaches on race at her university?
(a) The History of Whiteness in America.
(b) The Tulsa Massacre and American History.
(c) Constructions of Whiteness.
(d) Racism in America.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Rankine when she met her husband?

3. Which play does Rankine go to see with a white friend of hers in Part III?

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

5. Which poet described love partially as "a close reading"?

(see the answer key)

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