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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 social justice activist talked often about the so-called culture of whiteness?
(a) Ruby Sales.
(b) Fabian Fabrize.
(c) Justin Roamley.
(d) Marshall Maverick.

2. What does Rankine's white male friend send her from the diversity workshop he attends?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Desperate looks.
(c) A request that she call him and manufacture a reason for him to have to leave.
(d) Crazy emojis.

3. What did Rankine identify as her "most corrupt thought of the year" in Part II?
(a) She hesitated to go to her daughter's parent-teacher conference because she did not want the teacher's potential anti-Black bias to be conferred onto her daughter.
(b) She wondered if her daughter would get into college.
(c) She wondered if she had been passed over for a promotion because she is a Black woman.
(d) She wanted to find out what her supervisor really thought of her.

4. How old was Rankine when she met her husband?
(a) 30.
(b) 45.
(c) 25.
(d) 35.

5. What does Rankine think is the probable outcome of her conversations at the dinner party in Part III?
(a) The other guests will call the police.
(b) She will not be invited back with this same group of people.
(c) Her daughter will be embarrassed in school.
(d) At least one other guest will talk about her behind her back.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Rankine write that the "root of chastise" is?

2. What word did a preschool teacher for a friend of Rankine's four-year old son use for the child when he had a temper tantrum at school?

3. Which term, coined by Orlando Patterson, does Frank Wilderson III borrow, according to Rankine?

4. What does Rankine write is "its own form of American optimism" in Part II?

5. What does the sign the man in the photograph on page 140 of this book say?

(see the answer key)

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