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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. At the very end of Part II, what statement does Rankine recall a white woman saying to her several weeks earlier?
(a) Blacks have to get up and fight for themselves.
(b) Voter suppression laws make no difference.
(c) America is a post-racist society after electing a Black president.
(d) Antiracist work makes no difference.

2. What does Rankine say she wants her daughter to be able to "negotiate the world" with?
(a) Optimism.
(b) Emphatic imagination.
(c) Faith in the police.
(d) Justice.

3. What does Notes on the State of Virginia conclude about the memories of Blacks and whites?
(a) They are about equal.
(b) White children have better memories than Black adults.
(c) Blacks have better memories than whites.
(d) Whites have better memories than Blacks.

4. Which of the following does Rankine write that the "root of chastise" is?
(a) To garden.
(b) To feed.
(c) To make pure.
(d) To chase.

5. What did the CDC report about breast cancer disparities between white and Black people?
(a) Black women see doctors at lower rates than white women do.
(b) Black women get breast cancer at higher rates than white women do.
(c) Black women have less access to treatments for breast cancer than white women do.
(d) Black and white women get breast cancer at about the same rate, but Black women die at higher rates from breast cancer than white women do.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Rankine write is "its own form of American optimism" in Part II?

4. Which writer refers to "the afterlife of slavery"?

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

(see the answer key)

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