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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) Optimism.
(b) Faith in the police.
(c) Justice.
(d) Emphatic imagination.

2. Which object did white supremacist demonstrators in Virginia use in 2017 during rally there?
(a) Robeson flags.
(b) Bakelite Flashlights.
(c) Tiki torches.
(d) Swiss army knives.

3. What is one possible reason Rankine thinks white people do not develop close friendships with Black people?
(a) White people feel too guilty about white violence to have close friendships with Black people.
(b) White people are uncomfortable by the income gap between white and Black people.
(c) White people do not know enough Black people.
(d) White people do not want to be confronted by white violence against Black people.

4. 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) Making art addressing the racist treatment of American citizens.
(c) Traveling to other countries to try to help set up health care centers for people of color.
(d) Raising foster children.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Notes on the State of Virginia conclude that the Black race could not produce?

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 Rankine notice in Part I about her "banter" with strangers?

4. What did police often ask Rankine and her husband when they were pulled over in New York City and New Jersey?

5. How old was Rankine when she met her husband?

(see the answer key)

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