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

2. Which theorist studied Google searches for the term evolution and found that the results were mostly portrayals of the height of evolution as the body of a white male?
(a) Nelson Benson.
(b) Henderson Mellowin.
(c) Benjamin Eleanor Adam.
(d) Fabrize Stellin.

3. Who said, "I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife?"
(a) William Harrison.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Andrew Jackson.
(d) Jefferson Davis.

4. What does Rankine write is "its own form of American optimism" in Part II?
(a) The idea that America is a post-racial society.
(b) The idea that elections can solve problems.
(c) The idea that everyone is free.
(d) The idea that racism is a dynamic of youth and ignorance.

5. What did Rankine tell her marriage counselor in front of her husband that was hurtful to her husband?
(a) Her husband made a lot more money than she did.
(b) Her husband was not as talented of a writer as she was.
(c) Her husband did not really want to go to therapy.
(d) Her husband, as a white man, would have no trouble replacing her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What album of Beyonce's does Rankine discuss in Part II?

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

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

4. What does the document Notes on the State of Virginia say that Blacks are much inferior to whites in?

5. What do the people in the workshop say about the scenario comparing a Black person to a monkey?

(see the answer key)

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