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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. About how many whites do not have any Black friends, according to a study cited by the Washington Post reporter Christopher Ingraham?
(a) 55%.
(b) 35%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 20%.

2. What did Rankine and her husband spend much of their time doing for the past several decades?
(a) Teaching classes at small community colleges about racism.
(b) Making art addressing the racist treatment of American citizens.
(c) Traveling to other countries to try to help set up health care centers for people of color.
(d) Raising foster children.

3. What question does Rankine ask about white being being able to speak to their own whiteness in Part I?
(a) If white people are all tired of talking about police brutality, how can they speak to their whiteness?
(b) If white people can't see their own whiteness, how can they speak to it?
(c) If white people do not read history, how can they speak to their whiteness?
(d) If white people are all highly paid, why should they be moved to speak to their whiteness?

4. Which of the following does the Notes on the State of Virginia conclude about Blacks?
(a) They do not have as long of a lifespan as whites.
(b) They require less sleep than whites.
(c) They do not reproduce as easily as whites.
(d) They are less muscular than whites.

5. Why did Rankine bolster the security at her own home?
(a) Her neighbor's house had been broken into recently.
(b) Her children had been harassed at school.
(c) Some of her partners at the university had been targeted for work similar to hers.
(d) She had received a flurry of hate mail.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which writer refers to "the afterlife of slavery"?

2. Which West Indian writer does Rankine refer to in Part I in her section about air travel?

3. What does Rankine repeatedly say she wants for her daughter?

4. What does Notes on the State of Virginia conclude that the Black race could not produce?

5. What does Rankine say of her own white husband's attitude towards white privilege?

(see the answer key)

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