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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 does Rankine write that college admissions processes are full of?
(a) Public grievance.
(b) Corruption.
(c) Gray areas.
(d) Magic.

2. What word or phrase did Joyelle McSweeney define that Rankine includes in Part II?
(a) Peripheral racism.
(b) Illusory racism.
(c) Fungeal.
(d) Necropastoral.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From what event does Rankine include a photograph of men giving a Nazi salute in front of a burning swastika in Part II?

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

5. Which object did white supremacist demonstrators in Virginia use in 2017 during rally there?

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