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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 one dinner party guest try to turn people's attention to to change the subject from racism that Rankine brings up?
(a) Rankine's beautiful clothes.
(b) The dessert tray.
(c) The rainbow outside.
(d) The dog.

2. Who wrote the play Waiting for Godot?
(a) Ferdinand Rawlins.
(b) Rowland Ross.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Seamus Heaney.

3. What was the name of the 2017 Virginia rally of white supremacists?
(a) Righters are Fighters.
(b) The New Socialist Democratic Movement.
(c) Conserve Our History.
(d) Unite the Right.

4. Which city in Michigan suffered from lead-tainted water?
(a) Flint.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Missoula.
(d) Dearborne.

5. What is one major difference Rankine understands between her life and that of her dear white friend in Part III, even though they share many similarities?
(a) Rankine did not have anyone else help her pay for college.
(b) Rankine did not have children, and her friend did.
(c) Rankine did not have any inherited wealth.
(d) Rankine did not have health insurance, and her friend did.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rankine question how far away she can get from by using the language of inquiry in Part IV?

2. What ubiquitous coffee shop chain experienced a scandal for the racial bias an employee exhibited towards customers there in 2018?

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

4. What did Rankine identify as her "most corrupt thought of the year" in Part II?

5. What was the 2017 white supremacist rally in Virginia supposedly organized to respond to?

(see the answer key)

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