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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. Why is Rankine so mad at her friend for not following the instructions at the play in Part III?
(a) She thinks it was her friend's way of showing how much more money she had than Rankine had.
(b) She thinks it was disrespectful to the playwright and that it was also a way of exercising white privilege.
(c) She thinks it was insulting to Martin Luther King Jr.
(d) She thinks it demonstrates her friend's lifelong racist behavior.

2. What does Rankine say she wants her daughter to be able to "negotiate the world" with?
(a) Faith in the police.
(b) Emphatic imagination.
(c) Justice.
(d) Optimism.

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

4. What is the title of the class Rankine teaches on race at her university?
(a) The Tulsa Massacre and American History.
(b) Racism in America.
(c) The History of Whiteness in America.
(d) Constructions of Whiteness.

5. Which writer refers to "the afterlife of slavery"?
(a) Langston Hughes.
(b) Saidya Hartman.
(c) Zora Neal Hurston.
(d) Zadie Smith.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What phrase does Rankine's seatmate on a flight in Part I say that Rankine says pulls an emergency brake in her brain?

3. Why did one white friend of Rankine's tell her she had to defend her to her other white friends often?

4. What source does Rankine recommend for an extended argument for integration?

5. Who is Rankine's favorite musical group?

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