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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 is the name for the pictures photographers used to use to gauge skin tone?
(a) Paint Cards.
(b) Black Cards.
(c) White Cards.
(d) Shirley Cards.

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

3. Which term, coined by Orlando Patterson, does Frank Wilderson III borrow, according to Rankine?
(a) Social capital.
(b) Social invisibility.
(c) Social death.
(d) Social landing.

4. What does Rankine say American voter registration laws can function as in some states?
(a) The precursors to riots.
(b) Ways to employ more people.
(c) Infringement on free speech.
(d) De facto Jim Crow laws.

5. What did Rankine tell her marriage counselor in front of her husband that was hurtful to her husband?
(a) Her husband was not as talented of a writer as she was.
(b) Her husband, as a white man, would have no trouble replacing her.
(c) Her husband did not really want to go to therapy.
(d) Her husband made a lot more money than she did.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What question does Rankine ask about white being being able to speak to their own whiteness in Part I?

3. What subject did philosopher Charles Mills and sociologist Wulf Hund edit a volume of essays about?

4. What does Rankine identify as an "idle thought" when discussing her daughter's school and the white parents there?

5. What does a white male friend of Rankine's who was recently passed over for a job tell Rankine about it?

(see the answer key)

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