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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 does Rankine think about her friend's response to the incident at the play in Part III?
(a) She is thankful for the response but she stops speaking to her white friend.
(b) She wants to ask her other colleagues what they think about the whole situation.
(c) She is even more upset by it.
(d) She is encouraged that they are engaging in conversation about what happened.

2. Why did one white friend of Rankine's tell her she had to defend her to her other white friends often?
(a) Because the white friends thought Rankine was a radical.
(b) Because the white friends thought Rankine did not like them.
(c) Because the white friends thought Rankine was too serious.
(d) Because the white friends did not understand Rankine's academic work.

3. Which Black female candidate for governor in 2018 does Rankine identify as having endured racist attacks during her campaign?
(a) Roberta Johnson.
(b) Stacey Abrams.
(c) Val Demmings.
(d) Ramona Jones.

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

5. What does Rankine say to her white friend at the end of the play they see together in Part III?
(a) I didn't know you were racist.
(b) I didn't know you had this much hate in your heart.
(c) I didn't know you didn't like me.
(d) I didn't know you were Black.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the book The Color of Law?

2. Which white documentary maker does Rankine study with her class?

3. What did Rankine and her husband spend much of their time doing for the past several decades?

4. What was the 2017 white supremacist rally in Virginia supposedly organized to respond to?

5. What name does Rankine write that Senator Ted Cruz was formerly known by?

(see the answer key)

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