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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 disease was at the center of the Tuskegee tragedy?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) AIDS.
(d) Syphilis.

2. What does Rankine refer to "the gloom" in her poem in Part III?
(a) The off-white of white.
(b) The way white people often deflect discussions about racism.
(c) Toadyism.
(d) The lack of nuance in discussions about racism.

3. What specific topic did George Wallace run successfully on?
(a) Defeating the Voting Rights Act.
(b) Segregation.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Trying to reverse the outcome of the Civil War.

4. What word or phrase did Joyelle McSweeney define that Rankine includes in Part II?
(a) Necropastoral.
(b) Illusory racism.
(c) Peripheral racism.
(d) Fungeal.

5. In which city does Rankine's plane land in Part IV in which a woman has to be taken off the plane by EMTs?
(a) New York.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Phoenix.

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 is the title of Ellen D. Wu's widely cited history on Asian Americans?

3. What is a common critical response to the Black Lives Matter slogan?

4. What James Baldwin poem does Rankine excerpt in Part I?

5. What does Rankine outright accuse the other guests at the dinner party of doing to her in trying to change the subject away from racism?

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