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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 word or phrase did Joyelle McSweeney define that Rankine includes in Part II?
(a) Fungeal.
(b) Peripheral racism.
(c) Necropastoral.
(d) Illusory racism.

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

3. Where does Rankine begin to undertake conversation with white men who are strangers?
(a) In airports and on airplanes.
(b) On subways.
(c) At her university.
(d) In restaurants.

4. What is one possible reason Rankine thinks white people do not develop close friendships with Black people?
(a) White people feel too guilty about white violence to have close friendships with Black people.
(b) White people are uncomfortable by the income gap between white and Black people.
(c) White people do not want to be confronted by white violence against Black people.
(d) White people do not know enough Black people.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Rankine bolster the security at her own home?

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

3. Which university does Rankine work for?

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

5. What does Rankine write holds a place in her "referential memory" in a way it does not in white people's memory?

(see the answer key)

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