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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Whites have better memories than Blacks.
(c) They are about equal.
(d) Blacks have better memories than whites.

2. What does the Eve Fowler print in Rankine's home say?
(a) Your truth is your truth.
(b) Anyone telling anything is telling that thing.
(c) Far from roses this way goes.
(d) When we are old, we can sleep.

3. Who popularized the phrase "white privilege"?
(a) Farrow Garland.
(b) Marshall McLuhan.
(c) Peggy McIntosh.
(d) Evie Barlow.

4. What event occurred in Washington D.C. on August 8, 1925?
(a) A large Ku Klux Klan rally.
(b) A deadly clash between anti-racist protestors and white supremacist groups.
(c) Bombings of several Black churches.
(d) A hurricane that damaged the city.

5. What does Rankine say American voter registration laws can function as in some states?
(a) The precursors to riots.
(b) Ways to employ more people.
(c) De facto Jim Crow laws.
(d) Infringement on free speech.

6. What is the name for the pictures photographers used to use to gauge skin tone?
(a) Black Cards.
(b) Shirley Cards.
(c) Paint Cards.
(d) White Cards.

7. What did the man on the plane tell Rankine he misrepresented to her in his story about his hometown?
(a) He had actually witnessed police brutality against Blacks.
(b) There was more racism and racist behavior there than he let on.
(c) He was not from the hometown he said he was.
(d) He was actually from a poor family.

8. What does a white male friend of Rankine's who was recently passed over for a job tell Rankine about it?
(a) He feels he was absorbing the problems of the world, meaning he was being punished for the sins of his forefathers.
(b) He feels he would not have been good at the job anyway.
(c) He feels they offered him a lower salary because he is white.
(d) He feels as if he may never get another job again.

9. What did Rankine and her husband spend much of their time doing for the past several decades?
(a) Raising foster children.
(b) Making art addressing the racist treatment of American citizens.
(c) Traveling to other countries to try to help set up health care centers for people of color.
(d) Teaching classes at small community colleges about racism.

10. How old was Rankine when she met her husband?
(a) 45.
(b) 35.
(c) 25.
(d) 30.

11. 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 racism is a dynamic of youth and ignorance.
(c) The idea that America is a post-racial society.
(d) The idea that everyone is free.

12. What does one white man whose son did not gain entry by early admission to Yale tell Rankine he thinks is part of the problem?
(a) His son did not have enough extra-curricular activities.
(b) He did not donate any money to the university.
(c) His son's grades were not high enough.
(d) The Asians are flooding the Ivy Leagues.

13. Which white documentary maker does Rankine study with her class?
(a) Whitney Dow.
(b) Jefferson Turfley.
(c) Michael Moore.
(d) Jan Ringlow.

14. How does the writer Rachel Kaadzi Ghanash describe the online community of violent white supremacists like the 2015 Charleston church shooter?
(a) They are mixed-race, somewhat educated, older, and heavily armed.
(b) They are highly educated, middle-aged, white, and heavily armed.
(c) They are young, heavily armed, and usually employed in well-paid jobs.
(d) They are white, young, heavily armed, and usually extremely socially awkward.

15. What does Rankine say of her own white husband's attitude towards white privilege?
(a) He does not like to engage on this topic.
(b) He has only recently begun to talk about white privilege.
(c) He thinks he understands and recognizes his own privilege, and he certainly understands the right terminology to use.
(d) He teaches a class about white privilege similar to the one Rankine teaches.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the people in the workshop say about the scenario comparing a Black person to a monkey?

2. What question does Rankine ask about white being being able to speak to their own whiteness in Part I?

3. What subject did philosopher Charles Mills and sociologist Wulf Hund edit a volume of essays about?

4. Who is Rankine's favorite musical group?

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

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