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

2. 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) Nike's advertising slogan.
(d) A Louis Armstrong song.

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

4. What specific topic did George Wallace run successfully on?
(a) Trying to reverse the outcome of the Civil War.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Segregation.
(d) Defeating the Voting Rights Act.

5. Who wrote the play Waiting for Godot?
(a) Rowland Ross.
(b) Ferdinand Rawlins.
(c) Seamus Heaney.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did police often ask Rankine and her husband when they were pulled over in New York City and New Jersey?

2. What does Rankine say American voter registration laws can function as in some states?

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

4. Which theorist studied Google searches for the term evolution and found that the results were mostly portrayals of the height of evolution as the body of a white male?

5. Which experiment results were used in the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case to show the adverse effect of racism on Black children?

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