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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 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) Raising foster children.
(d) Teaching classes at small community colleges about racism.

2. What did a young boy tell his classmate, who was the child of a friend of Rankine's, he had done by giving Goldilocks dark skin in a picture he colored?
(a) Improved her.
(b) Made her a liar.
(c) Ruined her.
(d) Made her less intelligent.

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

4. What did police often ask Rankine and her husband when they were pulled over in New York City and New Jersey?
(a) How much money they had.
(b) Whether they had weapons.
(c) How they knew each other.
(d) Where they were going.

5. What does Rankine write at the end of her section about police interactions with Black citizens in Part IV?
(a) Many white politicians have tried to sideline and belittle the Black Lives Matter movement.
(b) Blacks Lives Matter is a step in the right direction.
(c) There need to be new laws governing police mistreatment of Blacks.
(d) Brutality and mistreatment are not isolated incidents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of patterns did some psychologists study in preschool teachers to research racial bias?

2. What does Rankine say she wants her daughter to be able to "negotiate the world" with?

3. How did khaki pants and the color khaki begin to become fashionable in America in the 1950s?

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

5. What book does Rankine question if she has read herself too many times?

(see the answer key)

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