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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 is the title of Ellen D. Wu's widely cited history on Asian Americans?
(a) Finding Their Place: Asian Americans Today.
(b) The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority.
(c) The Price of Integration: The Origins of the Model Minority and Asian Americans.
(d) Creating Community.

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

3. What event did Rankine recall having heard about occuring on her college campus the year before she attended as a freshman?
(a) A mass shooting.
(b) A police-involved killing.
(c) A cross burning.
(d) A lynching.

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

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) At least one other guest will talk about her behind her back.
(c) Her daughter will be embarrassed in school.
(d) She will not be invited back with this same group of people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a white male friend of Rankine's who was recently passed over for a job tell Rankine about it?

2. What does Rankine write that college admissions processes are full of?

3. What does Rankine write that she finds herself doing instead of answering the white professor's question in Part V?

4. What illness did Rankine suffer and recover from?

5. What does Notes on the State of Virginia conclude that the Black race could not produce?

(see the answer key)

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