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

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

3. Which city in Michigan suffered from lead-tainted water?
(a) Flint.
(b) Dearborne.
(c) Missoula.
(d) Detroit.

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

5. What was the 2017 white supremacist rally in Virginia supposedly organized to respond to?
(a) Affirmative action.
(b) Calls to remove the Confederate statue in Charlottesville.
(c) The election of the first Black president.
(d) A new book by a prominent Black legal scholar.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the writer Rachel Kaadzi Ghanash describe the online community of violent white supremacists like the 2015 Charleston church shooter?

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

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

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

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

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