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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 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 am not white male privilege.
(c) I do not have enough food to eat; how can I be privileged?
(d) No whites, no service.

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

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

4. In Part IV, what does Rankine write that a "force within the whiteness" does?
(a) Wins the fights.
(b) Silences Blacks.
(c) Forces the whiteness.
(d) Brings privilege to bear.

5. What does conversing risk mean, according to Rankine in Part IV?
(a) Silence.
(b) Persecution.
(c) The unraveling of the said and the unsaid.
(d) Destruction.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which West Indian writer does Rankine refer to in Part I in her section about air travel?

2. Who popularized the phrase "white privilege"?

3. Why is Rankine so mad at her friend for not following the instructions at the play in Part III?

4. What television series starring Reese Witherspoon does Rankine reference in the text in Part III?

5. Who did Malcolm X say was the most disrespected, unprotected, and neglected person in America?

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