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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 subject did philosopher Charles Mills and sociologist Wulf Hund edit a volume of essays about?
(a) The history of slavery in Britain.
(b) Simianization.
(c) Reparations.
(d) The history of the American Civil War.

2. At the very end of Part II, what statement does Rankine recall a white woman saying to her several weeks earlier?
(a) Antiracist work makes no difference.
(b) America is a post-racist society after electing a Black president.
(c) Blacks have to get up and fight for themselves.
(d) Voter suppression laws make no difference.

3. What does the Eve Fowler print in Rankine's home say?
(a) Your truth is your truth.
(b) Far from roses this way goes.
(c) Anyone telling anything is telling that thing.
(d) When we are old, we can sleep.

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

5. From what event does Rankine include a photograph of men giving a Nazi salute in front of a burning swastika in Part II?
(a) The 1934 National Socialist Rally in Berlin.
(b) The National Socialist Movement Rally in Georgia in 2018.
(c) The 1932 National Socialist Rally in Reinhold.
(d) The 1956 National Socialist Rally in Beindorf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rankine write that college admissions processes are full of?

2. What event occurred in Washington D.C. on August 8, 1925?

3. Which experiment results were used in the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case to show the adverse effect of racism on Black children?

4. What does a white male friend of Rankine's who was recently passed over for a job tell Rankine about it?

5. What event did Rankine recall having heard about occuring on her college campus the year before she attended as a freshman?

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