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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 did Rankine and her husband spend much of their time doing for the past several decades?
(a) Making art addressing the racist treatment of American citizens.
(b) Teaching classes at small community colleges about racism.
(c) Traveling to other countries to try to help set up health care centers for people of color.
(d) Raising foster children.

2. 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.

3. Which theorist studied Google searches for the term evolution and found that the results were mostly portrayals of the height of evolution as the body of a white male?
(a) Henderson Mellowin.
(b) Nelson Benson.
(c) Benjamin Eleanor Adam.
(d) Fabrize Stellin.

4. Which fashion brand does Rankine write cultivated an aura of the white, wealthy country-club set throughout the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s?
(a) Ashbrown.
(b) Mode.
(c) Tommy Hilfiger.
(d) Ralph Lauren.

5. What does Rankine's white male friend send her from the diversity workshop he attends?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Crazy emojis.
(c) A request that she call him and manufacture a reason for him to have to leave.
(d) Desperate looks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of former First Lady Michelle Obama's memoir, which Rankine references in Part III?

2. 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?

3. In her poem in Part I, what does Rankine say is in her voice when she says she feels herself slowing down?

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

5. Who is Rankine's favorite musical group?

(see the answer key)

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