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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 the Eve Fowler print in Rankine's home say?
(a) Your truth is your truth.
(b) When we are old, we can sleep.
(c) Far from roses this way goes.
(d) Anyone telling anything is telling that thing.

2. What does one white man whose son did not gain entry by early admission to Yale tell Rankine he thinks is part of the problem?
(a) His son did not have enough extra-curricular activities.
(b) The Asians are flooding the Ivy Leagues.
(c) He did not donate any money to the university.
(d) His son's grades were not high enough.

3. What does Rankine identify as an "idle thought" when discussing her daughter's school and the white parents there?
(a) The idea that someday America might really be a post-racial society.
(b) The idea of affirmative action.
(c) The idea of playing the race card.
(d) The idea of a shared anxiety with white parents regarding the lack of diversity at the school.

4. Where does Rankine begin to undertake conversation with white men who are strangers?
(a) In restaurants.
(b) In airports and on airplanes.
(c) On subways.
(d) At her university.

5. What album of Beyonce's does Rankine discuss in Part II?
(a) Beach.
(b) Lemonade.
(c) All the Single Ladies.
(d) Forever.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Rankine and her husband spend much of their time doing for the past several decades?

4. How does the document Notes on the State of Virginia characterize the griefs of Black people?

5. Which object did white supremacist demonstrators in Virginia use in 2017 during rally there?

(see the answer key)

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