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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. In her poem in Part I, what does Rankine say is in her voice when she says she feels herself slowing down?
(a) Humor.
(b) Resignation.
(c) Fear.
(d) Marginalization.

2. What does Rankine notice in Part I about her "banter" with strangers?
(a) She does not often fall into conversation with white men.
(b) She never ends up talking with Asian people.
(c) She finds that she always ends up talking with other people working in academia.
(d) She ends up speaking with younger people constantly.

3. 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.

4. What does Rankine say of her own white husband's attitude towards white privilege?
(a) He teaches a class about white privilege similar to the one Rankine teaches.
(b) He has only recently begun to talk about white privilege.
(c) He does not like to engage on this topic.
(d) He thinks he understands and recognizes his own privilege, and he certainly understands the right terminology to use.

5. Which university does Rankine work for?
(a) Yale.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Stanford.
(d) Harvard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a white male friend of Rankine's who was recently passed over for a job tell Rankine about it?

2. Who wrote the book The Color of Law?

3. What phrase does Rankine's seatmate on a flight in Part I say that Rankine says pulls an emergency brake in her brain?

4. Where does Rankine begin to undertake conversation with white men who are strangers?

5. What question does Rankine ask about white being being able to speak to their own whiteness in Part I?

(see the answer key)

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