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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 a white male friend of Rankine's who was recently passed over for a job tell Rankine about it?
(a) He feels he would not have been good at the job anyway.
(b) He feels they offered him a lower salary because he is white.
(c) He feels as if he may never get another job again.
(d) He feels he was absorbing the problems of the world, meaning he was being punished for the sins of his forefathers.

2. In her poem in Part I, what does Rankine say is in her voice when she says she feels herself slowing down?
(a) Resignation.
(b) Marginalization.
(c) Humor.
(d) Fear.

3. What did Rankine and her husband spend much of their time doing for the past several decades?
(a) Raising foster children.
(b) Teaching classes at small community colleges about racism.
(c) Making art addressing the racist treatment of American citizens.
(d) Traveling to other countries to try to help set up health care centers for people of color.

4. What does Rankine notice in Part I about her "banter" with strangers?
(a) She finds that she always ends up talking with other people working in academia.
(b) She does not often fall into conversation with white men.
(c) She never ends up talking with Asian people.
(d) She ends up speaking with younger people constantly.

5. In which city in Virginia did a white supremacist rally take place in 2017?
(a) Dubray.
(b) Charlottesville.
(c) Arlington.
(d) Front Royal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which university does Rankine work for?

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

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

4. What did police often ask Rankine and her husband when they were pulled over in New York City and New Jersey?

5. What does the document Notes on the State of Virginia say that Blacks are much inferior to whites in?

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