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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 write holds a place in her "referential memory" in a way it does not in white people's memory?
(a) The legacy of Jim Crow laws.
(b) The legacy of slavery.
(c) The history of experimenting on Black people.
(d) The poem The White Man's Burden.

2. Which of the following situations arose in which a white woman filmed and threatened a Black man in Part IV?
(a) A white woman accused a Black man of stealing her cell phone with no evidence.
(b) A white woman questioned whether a Black man was really a police officer when, in fact, he was.
(c) A white woman accused a Black man of threatening her life when he asked her to put her dog on a leash.
(d) A white woman questioned whether a Black man lived in his own apartment building and told him she was uncomfortable with him entering it.

3. Who did Malcolm X say was the most disrespected, unprotected, and neglected person in America?
(a) The Black man.
(b) The Black woman.
(c) The white woman.
(d) The Asian woman.

4. Where does Rankine say the phrase "people of color" originally came from?
(a) The court case Brown v. The Board of Education.
(b) The court case Loving v. Virginia.
(c) Women of color.
(d) The great migration.

5. Who wrote the play Rankine goes to see in Part III with a white friend?
(a) Jackie Sibblies Drury.
(b) Neil Simon.
(c) Leslie Hinds.
(d) Stephen Retrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Rankine write that the "root of chastise" is?

2. When was the word "privilege" first used, according to Rankine?

3. 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?

4. What does Rankine think about her friend's response to the incident at the play in Part III?

5. What did a young boy tell his classmate, who was the child of a friend of Rankine's, he had done by giving Goldilocks dark skin in a picture he colored?

(see the answer key)

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