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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. Which writer refers to "the afterlife of slavery"?
(a) Saidya Hartman.
(b) Zora Neal Hurston.
(c) Zadie Smith.
(d) Langston Hughes.

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) His son did not have enough extra-curricular activities.
(b) He did not donate any money to the university.
(c) The Asians are flooding the Ivy Leagues.
(d) His son's grades were not high enough.

3. What does Rankine repeatedly say she wants for her daughter?
(a) The freedom to be the artist she can be.
(b) A good college education.
(c) A country where her daughter can be Vice President.
(d) The world.

4. What year was the document Notes on the State of Virginia written in?
(a) 1781.
(b) 1805.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1790.

5. Who wrote the book The Color of Law?
(a) Richard Rothstein.
(b) Maya Angelou.
(c) Ruby Sales.
(d) Jane Zellen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the man on the plane tell Rankine he misrepresented to her in his story about his hometown?

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

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

4. Why did Rankine bolster the security at her own home?

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

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