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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 209 - 266).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What claim of psychologist Kristina Olson's does Rankine cite on children and racial preferences?
(a) By about 3 months old, American, Canadia, and Australian children show some signs of racial preferences.
(b) By about 10 years of age, American children show racial preferences.
(c) By 3 or 4 years of age, white children in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Europe show preferences for other white children.
(d) By about 15 years of age, American children show no real racial preferences.

2. What does Rankine think about her friend's response to the incident at the play in Part III?
(a) She wants to ask her other colleagues what they think about the whole situation.
(b) She is thankful for the response but she stops speaking to her white friend.
(c) She is encouraged that they are engaging in conversation about what happened.
(d) She is even more upset by it.

3. In what year did the Smithsonian Institution put on its first major show focused on the work of Latinos?
(a) 2008.
(b) 2020.
(c) 2010.
(d) 2013.

4. Who wrote the play Waiting for Godot?
(a) Ferdinand Rawlins.
(b) Rowland Ross.
(c) Seamus Heaney.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

5. Which university does Rankine work for?
(a) Yale.
(b) Stanford.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Princeton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following situations arose in which a white woman filmed and threatened a Black man in Part IV?

2. What do the people in the workshop say about the scenario comparing a Black person to a monkey?

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

4. How does the document Notes on the State of Virginia characterize the griefs of Black people?

5. Who wrote the play Rankine goes to see in Part III with a white friend?

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