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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Pages 1- 69).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What phrase does Rankine's seatmate on a flight in Part I say that Rankine says pulls an emergency brake in her brain?
(a) I do not experience white privilege.
(b) I am not a racist.
(c) I do not think Black Lives Matter is a legitimate organization.
(d) I don't see color.

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

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

4. 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) His son's grades were not high enough.
(d) He did not donate any money to the university.

5. Which term, coined by Orlando Patterson, does Frank Wilderson III borrow, according to Rankine?
(a) Social death.
(b) Social invisibility.
(c) Social capital.
(d) Social landing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Rankine's favorite musical group?

2. Which theorist studied Google searches for the term evolution and found that the results were mostly portrayals of the height of evolution as the body of a white male?

3. Who wrote the book The Color of Law?

4. Which white documentary maker does Rankine study with her class?

5. In her poem in Part I, what does Rankine say is in her voice when she says she feels herself slowing down?

(see the answer key)

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