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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 71 - 134).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Rankine and her husband spend much of their time doing for the past several decades?
(a) Teaching classes at small community colleges about racism.
(b) Traveling to other countries to try to help set up health care centers for people of color.
(c) Raising foster children.
(d) Making art addressing the racist treatment of American citizens.

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

3. What is the title of the class Rankine teaches on race at her university?
(a) The History of Whiteness in America.
(b) Constructions of Whiteness.
(c) Racism in America.
(d) The Tulsa Massacre and American History.

4. What word or phrase did Joyelle McSweeney define that Rankine includes in Part II?
(a) Peripheral racism.
(b) Illusory racism.
(c) Necropastoral.
(d) Fungeal.

5. What year was the document Notes on the State of Virginia written in?
(a) 1904.
(b) 1781.
(c) 1805.
(d) 1790.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject did philosopher Charles Mills and sociologist Wulf Hund edit a volume of essays about?

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

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

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

5. Who said, "I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife?"

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