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

2. What does Rankine's white male friend send her from the diversity workshop he attends?
(a) Crazy emojis.
(b) A request that she call him and manufacture a reason for him to have to leave.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Desperate looks.

3. What subject did philosopher Charles Mills and sociologist Wulf Hund edit a volume of essays about?
(a) The history of the American Civil War.
(b) Reparations.
(c) Simianization.
(d) The history of slavery in Britain.

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

5. Who popularized the phrase "white privilege"?
(a) Peggy McIntosh.
(b) Marshall McLuhan.
(c) Evie Barlow.
(d) Farrow Garland.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which university does Rankine work for?

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

5. What James Baldwin poem does Rankine excerpt in Part I?

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