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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 does Rankine say she wants her daughter to be able to "negotiate the world" with?
(a) Emphatic imagination.
(b) Justice.
(c) Faith in the police.
(d) Optimism.

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

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

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

5. What does the document Notes on the State of Virginia say that Blacks are much inferior to whites in?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Visual acuity.
(c) Physical strength.
(d) Reason.

Short Answer Questions

1. What illness did Rankine suffer and recover from?

2. What did the CDC report about breast cancer disparities between white and Black people?

3. At the very end of Part II, what statement does Rankine recall a white woman saying to her several weeks earlier?

4. Which West Indian writer does Rankine refer to in Part I in her section about air travel?

5. Which writer refers to "the afterlife of slavery"?

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