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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 71 - 134).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the people in the workshop say about the scenario comparing a Black person to a monkey?
(a) It was a fireable offense.
(b) It was something that should be taken up in court.
(c) It was above their pay grade.
(d) It was supposed to be a joke.

2. Which city in Michigan suffered from lead-tainted water?
(a) Flint.
(b) Missoula.
(c) Dearborne.
(d) Detroit.

3. Which term, coined by Orlando Patterson, does Frank Wilderson III borrow, according to Rankine?
(a) Social capital.
(b) Social death.
(c) Social landing.
(d) Social invisibility.

4. How old was Rankine when she met her husband?
(a) 45.
(b) 25.
(c) 30.
(d) 35.

5. What does Rankine write that college admissions processes are full of?
(a) Public grievance.
(b) Corruption.
(c) Magic.
(d) Gray areas.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many whites do not have any Black friends, according to a study cited by the Washington Post reporter Christopher Ingraham?

2. How does the writer Rachel Kaadzi Ghanash describe the online community of violent white supremacists like the 2015 Charleston church shooter?

3. What question does Rankine ask about white being being able to speak to their own whiteness in Part I?

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

5. In her poem in Part I, what does Rankine say is in her voice when she says she feels herself slowing down?

(see the answer key)

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