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

2. 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?
(a) Fabrize Stellin.
(b) Nelson Benson.
(c) Benjamin Eleanor Adam.
(d) Henderson Mellowin.

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

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

5. Which Saturday Night Live actress tweeted about harassment comparing her to an ape?
(a) Shasheer Zameta.
(b) Leslie Jones.
(c) Melissa Villasenor.
(d) Kristen Wiig.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rankine say she wants her daughter to be able to "negotiate the world" with?

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. What is one possible reason Rankine thinks white people do not develop close friendships with Black people?

4. What do the people in the workshop say about the scenario comparing a Black person to a monkey?

5. About how many whites do not have any Black friends, according to a study cited by the Washington Post reporter Christopher Ingraham?

(see the answer key)

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