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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 title of the class Rankine teaches on race at her university?
(a) Constructions of Whiteness.
(b) The History of Whiteness in America.
(c) The Tulsa Massacre and American History.
(d) Racism in America.

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

3. What song did Rankine and one of her white male co-travelers in Part I both love?
(a) The Devil Went Down to Georgia.
(b) Born in the U.S.A.
(c) Nightshift.
(d) Proud Mary.

4. Which Florida governor used a racially charged expression, according to Rankine, when running in 2018 against a Black opponent?
(a) Charlie Baker.
(b) Ron DeSantis.
(c) Evan Stone.
(d) Rick Scott.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Malcolm X say was the most disrespected, unprotected, and neglected person in America?

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

3. Which university does Rankine work for?

4. What phrase does Rankine's seatmate on a flight in Part I say that Rankine says pulls an emergency brake in her brain?

5. What event occurred in Washington D.C. on August 8, 1925?

(see the answer key)

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