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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 source does Rankine recommend for an extended argument for integration?
(a) Elizabeth Anderson's The Imperative of Integration.
(b) Alex Haley's Roots.
(c) Plato's The Cave.
(d) Toni Morrison's Beloved.

2. What does Rankine question how far away she can get from by using the language of inquiry in Part IV?
(a) Blame.
(b) Confrontation.
(c) Racism.
(d) Peace.

3. What did a young boy tell his classmate, who was the child of a friend of Rankine's, he had done by giving Goldilocks dark skin in a picture he colored?
(a) Made her less intelligent.
(b) Made her a liar.
(c) Ruined her.
(d) Improved her.

4. What does Rankine quote comedian Chris Rock as saying in Part IV?
(a) White people should walk in his shoes for one day.
(b) No white man in the audience would change places with him, and he is rich.
(c) Black people are survivors and white people could learn from that.
(d) Black people's humor comes from much tragedy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What trope does Rankine worry she is "sailing closer" to in Part III?

2. What does Rankine say to her white friend at the end of the play they see together in Part III?

3. What was the 2017 white supremacist rally in Virginia supposedly organized to respond to?

4. What does Rankine believe is foundational to all our problems in America?

5. What does Rankine say American voter registration laws can function as in some states?

(see the answer key)

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