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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. Which Supreme Court Justice does Rankine take issue with for his assertion that he had no connections at Yale?
(a) Brett Kavanaugh.
(b) Clarence Thomas.
(c) Samuel Alito.
(d) Neil Gorsuch.

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

3. What did Rankine identify as her "most corrupt thought of the year" in Part II?
(a) She wondered if she had been passed over for a promotion because she is a Black woman.
(b) She hesitated to go to her daughter's parent-teacher conference because she did not want the teacher's potential anti-Black bias to be conferred onto her daughter.
(c) She wondered if her daughter would get into college.
(d) She wanted to find out what her supervisor really thought of her.

4. Which term, coined by Orlando Patterson, does Frank Wilderson III borrow, according to Rankine?
(a) Social invisibility.
(b) Social capital.
(c) Social death.
(d) Social landing.

5. Who popularized the phrase "white privilege"?
(a) Peggy McIntosh.
(b) Marshall McLuhan.
(c) Farrow Garland.
(d) Evie Barlow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Eve Fowler print in Rankine's home say?

2. What does Rankine's white male friend send her from the diversity workshop he attends?

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

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

5. What does Rankine notice in Part I about her "banter" with strangers?

(see the answer key)

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