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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 135 - 208).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a common critical response to the Black Lives Matter slogan?
(a) Some Lives Matter.
(b) All Lives Matter.
(c) No Lives Matter.
(d) All Lives Are Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others.

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

3. What does Rankine refer to when she uses the term "R and R" in Part III?
(a) Ruminations and Reparations.
(b) Reconstruction and Remorse.
(c) Rest and Relaxation.
(d) Reparations and Reconstruction.

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

5. What illness did Rankine suffer and recover from?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) A heart attack.
(c) Breast cancer.
(d) Pancreatic cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which university does Rankine work for?

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

3. How does the writer Rachel Kaadzi Ghanash describe the online community of violent white supremacists like the 2015 Charleston church shooter?

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

5. What does Notes on the State of Virginia conclude about the memories of Blacks and whites?

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