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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. Where does Rankine begin to undertake conversation with white men who are strangers?
(a) In restaurants.
(b) In airports and on airplanes.
(c) At her university.
(d) On subways.

2. What does Rankine write that college admissions processes are full of?
(a) Magic.
(b) Gray areas.
(c) Corruption.
(d) Public grievance.

3. What book does Rankine question if she has read herself too many times?
(a) The New Jim Crow.
(b) Beloved.
(c) Stamped.
(d) The Color Purple.

4. What is the title of the class Rankine teaches on race at her university?
(a) The Tulsa Massacre and American History.
(b) The History of Whiteness in America.
(c) Racism in America.
(d) Constructions of Whiteness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rankine do to small pieces of the text of her poem on page 213 that is visually striking?

2. What is the audience instructed to do at the end of the play in Part III?

3. Which university does Rankine work for?

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

5. Which Florida governor used a racially charged expression, according to Rankine, when running in 2018 against a Black opponent?

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