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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. Which writer refers to "the afterlife of slavery"?
(a) Zora Neal Hurston.
(b) Saidya Hartman.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Zadie Smith.

2. 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) Traveling to other countries to try to help set up health care centers for people of color.
(c) Teaching classes at small community colleges about racism.
(d) Raising foster children.

3. What does Rankine say she wants her daughter to be able to "negotiate the world" with?
(a) Justice.
(b) Optimism.
(c) Emphatic imagination.
(d) Faith in the police.

4. Which West Indian writer does Rankine refer to in Part I in her section about air travel?
(a) Edward Ismal.
(b) Jondry Finland.
(c) Edouard Glissant.
(d) Richland Rowrey.

5. What did Rankine tell her marriage counselor in front of her husband that was hurtful to her husband?
(a) Her husband made a lot more money than she did.
(b) Her husband did not really want to go to therapy.
(c) Her husband was not as talented of a writer as she was.
(d) Her husband, as a white man, would have no trouble replacing her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rankine write that she is trying to understand in the very beginning of Part III?

2. What does Rankine identify as an "idle thought" when discussing her daughter's school and the white parents there?

3. What does Rankine's white friend do to try to explain her actions at the play to Rankine after the fact?

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

5. What do the people in the workshop say about the scenario comparing a Black person to a monkey?

(see the answer key)

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