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

2. What does Rankine say American voter registration laws can function as in some states?
(a) Ways to employ more people.
(b) The precursors to riots.
(c) De facto Jim Crow laws.
(d) Infringement on free speech.

3. Which columnist and fiction writer does Rankine include a tweet from about similar racist treatment in airports in Part I?
(a) Jesmyn Willow.
(b) Roxane Gay.
(c) Micheline Marrow.
(d) Marjorie Bearing.

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

5. In which city in Virginia did a white supremacist rally take place in 2017?
(a) Front Royal.
(b) Charlottesville.
(c) Arlington.
(d) Dubray.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which university does Rankine work for?

2. Where does Rankine begin to undertake conversation with white men who are strangers?

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

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

5. What event occurred in Washington D.C. on August 8, 1925?

(see the answer key)

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