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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 does Rankine quote comedian Chris Rock as saying in Part IV?
(a) Black people's humor comes from much tragedy.
(b) No white man in the audience would change places with him, and he is rich.
(c) Black people are survivors and white people could learn from that.
(d) White people should walk in his shoes for one day.

2. What did a young boy tell his classmate, who was the child of a friend of Rankine's, he had done by giving Goldilocks dark skin in a picture he colored?
(a) Improved her.
(b) Made her a liar.
(c) Ruined her.
(d) Made her less intelligent.

3. What phrase do people who want to excuse men's inappropriate or even abusive behavior towards women often say, according to Rankine?
(a) It is what it is.
(b) Boys will be boys.
(c) They made him do it.
(d) You can not have an omlette without breaking some eggs.

4. Which white documentary maker does Rankine study with her class?
(a) Jan Ringlow.
(b) Whitney Dow.
(c) Jefferson Turfley.
(d) Michael Moore.

5. Whose cells did researchers use for genetic experiments without her consent?
(a) Harriet Tubman.
(b) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(c) Rosa Parks.
(d) Henrietta Lacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name does Rankine write that Senator Ted Cruz was formerly known by?

2. What does Rankine write that George Wallace attributed his political success to?

3. What illness did Rankine suffer and recover from?

4. What does Rankine's white friend do to try to explain her actions at the play to Rankine after the fact?

5. What does the document Notes on the State of Virginia say that Blacks are much inferior to whites in?

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