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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 event did Rankine recall having heard about occuring on her college campus the year before she attended as a freshman?
(a) A police-involved killing.
(b) A mass shooting.
(c) A lynching.
(d) A cross burning.

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

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

4. What was the name of the 2017 Virginia rally of white supremacists?
(a) The New Socialist Democratic Movement.
(b) Righters are Fighters.
(c) Unite the Right.
(d) Conserve Our History.

5. What did the man on the plane tell Rankine he misrepresented to her in his story about his hometown?
(a) He was actually from a poor family.
(b) There was more racism and racist behavior there than he let on.
(c) He was not from the hometown he said he was.
(d) He had actually witnessed police brutality against Blacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Rankine write that the "root of chastise" is?

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. Which theorist studied Google searches for the term evolution and found that the results were mostly portrayals of the height of evolution as the body of a white male?

4. Which university does Rankine work for?

5. Who is Rankine's favorite musical group?

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