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

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

3. What does Rankine outright accuse the other guests at the dinner party of doing to her in trying to change the subject away from racism?
(a) Being as bad as the president himself.
(b) Being complicit in violence.
(c) Trying to get her fired.
(d) Silencing her.

4. Which social justice activist talked often about the so-called culture of whiteness?
(a) Justin Roamley.
(b) Fabian Fabrize.
(c) Ruby Sales.
(d) Marshall Maverick.

5. What does the sign the man in the photograph on page 140 of this book say?
(a) I am not ashamed/afraid to be white.
(b) I do not have enough food to eat; how can I be privileged?
(c) No whites, no service.
(d) I am not white male privilege.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Notes on the State of Virginia conclude about the memories of Blacks and whites?

2. Which writer who gave a June 1981 keynote presentation at the National Women's Studies Association Conference that Rankine quotes from in Part III?

3. Where does Rankine begin to undertake conversation with white men who are strangers?

4. What kinds of patterns did some psychologists study in preschool teachers to research racial bias?

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

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