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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. At the very end of Part II, what statement does Rankine recall a white woman saying to her several weeks earlier?
(a) Voter suppression laws make no difference.
(b) Antiracist work makes no difference.
(c) America is a post-racist society after electing a Black president.
(d) Blacks have to get up and fight for themselves.

2. Which Florida governor used a racially charged expression, according to Rankine, when running in 2018 against a Black opponent?
(a) Evan Stone.
(b) Ron DeSantis.
(c) Rick Scott.
(d) Charlie Baker.

3. Which white documentary maker does Rankine study with her class?
(a) Jefferson Turfley.
(b) Jan Ringlow.
(c) Michael Moore.
(d) Whitney Dow.

4. What James Baldwin poem does Rankine excerpt in Part I?
(a) The White Man's Burden.
(b) The White Man's Guilt.
(c) Freedom From the Oppressor.
(d) Brutality.

5. 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 am not a racist.
(b) I do not experience white privilege.
(c) I don't see color.
(d) I do not think Black Lives Matter is a legitimate organization.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which term, coined by Orlando Patterson, does Frank Wilderson III borrow, according to Rankine?

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

3. Who wrote the book The Color of Law?

4. What is the name for the pictures photographers used to use to gauge skin tone?

5. Which social justice activist talked often about the so-called culture of whiteness?

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