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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 the sign the man in the photograph on page 140 of this book say?
(a) I do not have enough food to eat; how can I be privileged?
(b) I am not ashamed/afraid to be white.
(c) No whites, no service.
(d) I am not white male privilege.

2. What song did Rankine and one of her white male co-travelers in Part I both love?
(a) The Devil Went Down to Georgia.
(b) Born in the U.S.A.
(c) Proud Mary.
(d) Nightshift.

3. What is a common critical response to the Black Lives Matter slogan?
(a) All Lives Are Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others.
(b) No Lives Matter.
(c) All Lives Matter.
(d) Some Lives Matter.

4. What does Rankine write holds a place in her "referential memory" in a way it does not in white people's memory?
(a) The history of experimenting on Black people.
(b) The poem The White Man's Burden.
(c) The legacy of Jim Crow laws.
(d) The legacy of slavery.

5. What illness did Rankine suffer and recover from?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Breast cancer.
(c) A heart attack.
(d) Pancreatic cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the word "privilege" first used, according to Rankine?

2. What did the CDC report about breast cancer disparities between white and Black people?

3. Which object did white supremacist demonstrators in Virginia use in 2017 during rally there?

4. What year was the document Notes on the State of Virginia written in?

5. Which Supreme Court Justice does Rankine take issue with for his assertion that he had no connections at Yale?

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