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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 James Baldwin poem does Rankine excerpt in Part I?
(a) Freedom From the Oppressor.
(b) Brutality.
(c) The White Man's Guilt.
(d) The White Man's Burden.

2. What does a white male friend of Rankine's who was recently passed over for a job tell Rankine about it?
(a) He feels as if he may never get another job again.
(b) He feels they offered him a lower salary because he is white.
(c) He feels he was absorbing the problems of the world, meaning he was being punished for the sins of his forefathers.
(d) He feels he would not have been good at the job anyway.

3. How does the document Notes on the State of Virginia characterize the griefs of Black people?
(a) They are nonexistant.
(b) They are lengthy.
(c) They are transient.
(d) They are deep.

4. What does Rankine write is "its own form of American optimism" in Part II?
(a) The idea that everyone is free.
(b) The idea that elections can solve problems.
(c) The idea that America is a post-racial society.
(d) The idea that racism is a dynamic of youth and ignorance.

5. What does Rankine notice in Part I about her "banter" with strangers?
(a) She never ends up talking with Asian people.
(b) She finds that she always ends up talking with other people working in academia.
(c) She ends up speaking with younger people constantly.
(d) She does not often fall into conversation with white men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was the document Notes on the State of Virginia written in?

2. Which Florida governor used a racially charged expression, according to Rankine, when running in 2018 against a Black opponent?

3. Which Saturday Night Live actress tweeted about harassment comparing her to an ape?

4. What does Rankine repeatedly say she wants for her daughter?

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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