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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) Flowers.
(c) Desperate looks.
(d) A request that she call him and manufacture a reason for him to have to leave.

2. What is the name of former First Lady Michelle Obama's memoir, which Rankine references in Part III?
(a) Unwinding.
(b) Homegoing.
(c) Becoming.
(d) Finding My Voice.

3. What does Rankine write that college admissions processes are full of?
(a) Corruption.
(b) Public grievance.
(c) Gray areas.
(d) Magic.

4. Who wrote the play Rankine goes to see in Part III with a white friend?
(a) Leslie Hinds.
(b) Stephen Retrow.
(c) Jackie Sibblies Drury.
(d) Neil Simon.

5. What did police often ask Rankine and her husband when they were pulled over in New York City and New Jersey?
(a) How much money they had.
(b) How they knew each other.
(c) Where they were going.
(d) Whether they had weapons.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the very end of Part II, what statement does Rankine recall a white woman saying to her several weeks earlier?

2. What did a young boy tell his classmate, who was the child of a friend of Rankine's, he had done by giving Goldilocks dark skin in a picture he colored?

3. Who said, "I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife?"

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

5. What trope does Rankine worry she is "sailing closer" to in Part III?

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