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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. Which Indiana police captain challenges another police captain over an issue of white privilege in a transcript in Part III?
(a) Penny Holder.
(b) Rainie Blackenship.
(c) Carri Weber.
(d) Riley Winston.

2. What does Rankine write is "its own form of American optimism" in Part II?
(a) The idea that elections can solve problems.
(b) The idea that America is a post-racial society.
(c) The idea that everyone is free.
(d) The idea that racism is a dynamic of youth and ignorance.

3. What does conversing risk mean, according to Rankine in Part IV?
(a) Silence.
(b) Persecution.
(c) Destruction.
(d) The unraveling of the said and the unsaid.

4. What does Notes on the State of Virginia conclude about the memories of Blacks and whites?
(a) White children have better memories than Black adults.
(b) They are about equal.
(c) Whites have better memories than Blacks.
(d) Blacks have better memories than whites.

5. What fact about the racial breakdown of the 2008 and 2012 U.S. presidential elections does Rankine highlight?
(a) Both years, the majority of non-whites voted for the white candidate.
(b) Both years, very few people of color voted at all.
(c) Both years, the majority of whites voted for the white candidate.
(d) Both years, the majority of whites voted for the Black candidate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of patterns did some psychologists study in preschool teachers to research racial bias?

2. What does a white female professor ask Rankine about advice she might give to her Black female students?

3. Which of the following situations arose in which a white woman filmed and threatened a Black man in Part IV?

4. What phrase does Rankine's seatmate on a flight in Part I say that Rankine says pulls an emergency brake in her brain?

5. What does Rankine say she wants her daughter to be able to "negotiate the world" with?

(see the answer key)

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