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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 identify as an "idle thought" when discussing her daughter's school and the white parents there?
(a) The idea that someday America might really be a post-racial society.
(b) The idea of affirmative action.
(c) The idea of playing the race card.
(d) The idea of a shared anxiety with white parents regarding the lack of diversity at the school.

2. What does one white man whose son did not gain entry by early admission to Yale tell Rankine he thinks is part of the problem?
(a) The Asians are flooding the Ivy Leagues.
(b) His son did not have enough extra-curricular activities.
(c) He did not donate any money to the university.
(d) His son's grades were not high enough.

3. Why did Rankine bolster the security at her own home?
(a) Some of her partners at the university had been targeted for work similar to hers.
(b) She had received a flurry of hate mail.
(c) Her children had been harassed at school.
(d) Her neighbor's house had been broken into recently.

4. What do the people in the workshop say about the scenario comparing a Black person to a monkey?
(a) It was above their pay grade.
(b) It was supposed to be a joke.
(c) It was a fireable offense.
(d) It was something that should be taken up in court.

5. What does the Eve Fowler print in Rankine's home say?
(a) When we are old, we can sleep.
(b) Anyone telling anything is telling that thing.
(c) Your truth is your truth.
(d) Far from roses this way goes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Rankine write that the "root of chastise" is?

2. Which of the following does the Notes on the State of Virginia conclude about Blacks?

3. What event did Rankine recall having heard about occuring on her college campus the year before she attended as a freshman?

4. Which Supreme Court Justice does Rankine take issue with for his assertion that he had no connections at Yale?

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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