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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 kinds of experiments does Rankine cite from Dr. Kenneth and Mamie Clark on racism?
(a) The "doll tests" with children choosing dolls of different skin colors.
(b) The "Lucifer" experiments.
(c) The "Singer" tests.
(d) The "marshmallow" tests.

2. What phrase does Rankine say Barack Obama's 2008 campaign slogan had its roots in?
(a) A Billie Holiday song.
(b) A Louis Armstrong song.
(c) Nike's advertising slogan.
(d) The United Farm Workers of America's phrase, Si Se Puede.

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

4. What event occurred in Washington D.C. on August 8, 1925?
(a) A deadly clash between anti-racist protestors and white supremacist groups.
(b) A large Ku Klux Klan rally.
(c) Bombings of several Black churches.
(d) A hurricane that damaged the city.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which columnist and fiction writer does Rankine include a tweet from about similar racist treatment in airports in Part I?

2. 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?

3. What does Rankine quote comedian Chris Rock as saying in Part IV?

4. Which theorist studied Google searches for the term evolution and found that the results were mostly portrayals of the height of evolution as the body of a white male?

5. Who said, "I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife?"

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