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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. How does the writer Rachel Kaadzi Ghanash describe the online community of violent white supremacists like the 2015 Charleston church shooter?
(a) They are young, heavily armed, and usually employed in well-paid jobs.
(b) They are highly educated, middle-aged, white, and heavily armed.
(c) They are mixed-race, somewhat educated, older, and heavily armed.
(d) They are white, young, heavily armed, and usually extremely socially awkward.

2. Which term, coined by Orlando Patterson, does Frank Wilderson III borrow, according to Rankine?
(a) Social death.
(b) Social capital.
(c) Social invisibility.
(d) Social landing.

3. What does the Eve Fowler print in Rankine's home say?
(a) When we are old, we can sleep.
(b) Far from roses this way goes.
(c) Anyone telling anything is telling that thing.
(d) Your truth is your truth.

4. When was the word "privilege" first used, according to Rankine?
(a) The 1600s.
(b) The twelfth century.
(c) The eighth century.
(d) The 1800s.

5. What did the CDC report about breast cancer disparities between white and Black people?
(a) Black women get breast cancer at higher rates than white women do.
(b) Black women see doctors at lower rates than white women do.
(c) Black and white women get breast cancer at about the same rate, but Black women die at higher rates from breast cancer than white women do.
(d) Black women have less access to treatments for breast cancer than white women do.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Wendy Roth's book that Rankine cites in Part IV?

2. What does Rankine repeatedly say she wants for her daughter?

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

4. What does Rankine write holds a place in her "referential memory" in a way it does not in white people's memory?

5. Which fashion brand does Rankine write cultivated an aura of the white, wealthy country-club set throughout the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s?

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