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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 267 - 335).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Scott Arndt react to hearing the phrase "white male privilege" from a colleague?
(a) He said it was extremely offensive.
(b) He said it was fair.
(c) He said it aroused suspicion in him.
(d) He said he thought it was a sad day for America.

2. What does Rankine write that she finds herself doing instead of answering the white professor's question in Part V?
(a) Listening harder.
(b) "Finding her voice" and talking to someone else at the table instead.
(c) Walking out.
(d) Falling into a defensive posture and "identifying with the scolded."

3. What question does a white man ask his female partner in an airport line that greatly turns Rankine and other passengers off in Part IV?
(a) Do you not realize how fat you are?
(b) Are you stupid?
(c) Do you want me to hit you?
(d) Why can you never do anything right?

4. Who wrote the Atlantic article "The Case for Reparations"?
(a) Ta-Nehisi Coates.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Marjorie Williams.
(d) Yvonne Henderson.

5. What question does Rankine ask about white being being able to speak to their own whiteness in Part I?
(a) If white people are all highly paid, why should they be moved to speak to their whiteness?
(b) If white people can't see their own whiteness, how can they speak to it?
(c) If white people are all tired of talking about police brutality, how can they speak to their whiteness?
(d) If white people do not read history, how can they speak to their whiteness?

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the creator of the Barbie Doll?

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

3. What does one dinner party guest try to turn people's attention to to change the subject from racism that Rankine brings up?

4. What disease was at the center of the Tuskegee tragedy?

5. How old was Rankine when she met her husband?

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