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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 267 - 335).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What television series starring Reese Witherspoon does Rankine reference in the text in Part III?
(a) Wysteria Lane.
(b) Homecoming.
(c) Little Fires Everywhere.
(d) Big Little Lies.

2. What does Rankine's white friend do to try to explain her actions at the play to Rankine after the fact?
(a) She publishes an op-ed in a major newspaper about her reasoning.
(b) She writes Rankine a letter.
(c) She sends one of their other friends to explain things to Rankine.
(d) She has a long talk with Rankine.

3. Who popularized the phrase "white privilege"?
(a) Peggy McIntosh.
(b) Marshall McLuhan.
(c) Evie Barlow.
(d) Farrow Garland.

4. What does a friend of Rankine's tell her after reading the final pages of Just Us in Part V?
(a) I am confused by what you have summarized.
(b) This could be a much better book.
(c) There is no strategy here.
(d) This could be a much worse book.

5. What is the title of Wendy Roth's book that Rankine cites in Part IV?
(a) Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race.
(b) The New Latinos in America.
(c) The Great Second Migration: Latinos and the Integration Politics.
(d) Texas Today: Latinos Find Their Political Voice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following young Black men was violently killed for no cause in 2012?

2. What did Rankine tell her marriage counselor in front of her husband that was hurtful to her husband?

3. What is the title of Ellen D. Wu's widely cited history on Asian Americans?

4. What is the term for the style of dying on the tips of one's hair blonde?

5. What did Rankine identify as her "most corrupt thought of the year" in Part II?

(see the answer key)

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