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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. Who wrote the play Rankine goes to see in Part III with a white friend?
(a) Leslie Hinds.
(b) Stephen Retrow.
(c) Jackie Sibblies Drury.
(d) Neil Simon.

2. Why is Rankine so mad at her friend for not following the instructions at the play in Part III?
(a) She thinks it was insulting to Martin Luther King Jr.
(b) She thinks it was her friend's way of showing how much more money she had than Rankine had.
(c) She thinks it demonstrates her friend's lifelong racist behavior.
(d) She thinks it was disrespectful to the playwright and that it was also a way of exercising white privilege.

3. What specific topic did George Wallace run successfully on?
(a) Defeating the Voting Rights Act.
(b) Trying to reverse the outcome of the Civil War.
(c) Segregation.
(d) Slavery.

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

5. Who wrote that "There are no refugees, only fellow citizens whose rights we fail to acknowledge"?
(a) William Whitman.
(b) Ta-Nehisi Coates.
(c) Yvonne Henderson.
(d) Teju Cole.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the man on the plane tell Rankine he misrepresented to her in his story about his hometown?

2. Which senator does Rankine identify as having tried to justify white voters' reluctance to vote for Black candidates in the 2018 midterm elections?

3. What rhetorical question does Rankine ask following the 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearings about the differences in how Americans treat young Black men and young white men?

4. What ubiquitous coffee shop chain experienced a scandal for the racial bias an employee exhibited towards customers there in 2018?

5. Which Supreme Court Justice does Rankine take issue with for his assertion that he had no connections at Yale?

(see the answer key)

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