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

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

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

4. How does the writer Rachel Kaadzi Ghanash describe the online community of violent white supremacists like the 2015 Charleston church shooter?
(a) They are mixed-race, somewhat educated, older, and heavily armed.
(b) They are white, young, heavily armed, and usually extremely socially awkward.
(c) They are young, heavily armed, and usually employed in well-paid jobs.
(d) They are highly educated, middle-aged, white, and heavily armed.

5. Which social justice activist talked often about the so-called culture of whiteness?
(a) Justin Roamley.
(b) Fabian Fabrize.
(c) Marshall Maverick.
(d) Ruby Sales.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which city in Michigan suffered from lead-tainted water?

3. What does Rankine say of her own white husband's attitude towards white privilege?

4. Which theorist studied Google searches for the term evolution and found that the results were mostly portrayals of the height of evolution as the body of a white male?

5. What does Rankine notice in Part I about her "banter" with strangers?

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