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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 album of Beyonce's does Rankine discuss in Part II?
(a) All the Single Ladies.
(b) Forever.
(c) Beach.
(d) Lemonade.

2. What was the name of the 2017 Virginia rally of white supremacists?
(a) Conserve Our History.
(b) The New Socialist Democratic Movement.
(c) Unite the Right.
(d) Righters are Fighters.

3. Which BBC broadcaster compared the mixed-race royal baby to an ape?
(a) Marie Mayhem.
(b) Charlie Roads.
(c) Danny Baker.
(d) Will Henderson.

4. Which columnist and fiction writer does Rankine include a tweet from about similar racist treatment in airports in Part I?
(a) Roxane Gay.
(b) Micheline Marrow.
(c) Jesmyn Willow.
(d) Marjorie Bearing.

5. Why does one white man tell Rankine he is comfortable around Black people?
(a) He plays basketball.
(b) He has a Black friend.
(c) He works with many Black people.
(d) He has a Black brother-in-law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name for the pictures photographers used to use to gauge skin tone?

2. What disease was at the center of the Tuskegee tragedy?

3. What does Rankine's white friend tell her about why she refused to follow the play's instructions at the end of the play in Part III?

4. In which city in Virginia did a white supremacist rally take place in 2017?

5. What did Rankine identify as her "most corrupt thought of the year" in Part II?

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