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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 does Rankine's white male friend send her from the diversity workshop he attends?
(a) Crazy emojis.
(b) Desperate looks.
(c) A request that she call him and manufacture a reason for him to have to leave.
(d) Flowers.

2. What is the audience instructed to do at the end of the play in Part III?
(a) They were asked to pull the fire alarms in the theater.
(b) White audience members were invited onto the stage and Black audience members were asked to stay in their seats.
(c) They were asked to clap very loudly.
(d) They were asked to get a glass of water and take it outside.

3. What question does Rankine ask about white being being able to speak to their own whiteness in Part I?
(a) If white people can't see their own whiteness, how can they speak to it?
(b) If white people are all highly paid, why should they be moved to speak to their whiteness?
(c) If white people are all tired of talking about police brutality, how can they speak to their whiteness?
(d) If white people do not read history, how can they speak to their whiteness?

4. What does Rankine write holds a place in her "referential memory" in a way it does not in white people's memory?
(a) The history of experimenting on Black people.
(b) The poem The White Man's Burden.
(c) The legacy of slavery.
(d) The legacy of Jim Crow laws.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What James Baldwin poem does Rankine excerpt in Part I?

4. What does one dinner party guest try to turn people's attention to to change the subject from racism that Rankine brings up?

5. Which city in Michigan suffered from lead-tainted water?

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