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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who wrote the book The Color of Law?
(a) Ruby Sales.
(b) Jane Zellen.
(c) Richard Rothstein.
(d) Maya Angelou.

3. What does Rankine write that college admissions processes are full of?
(a) Magic.
(b) Gray areas.
(c) Corruption.
(d) Public grievance.

4. Which poet described love partially as "a close reading"?
(a) Adrienne Richardson.
(b) Fabrize Fabricant.
(c) Erica Hunt.
(d) Emily Dickinson.

5. What album of Beyonce's does Rankine discuss in Part II?
(a) Beach.
(b) Lemonade.
(c) Forever.
(d) All the Single Ladies.

6. What does Rankine say she wants her daughter to be able to "negotiate the world" with?
(a) Faith in the police.
(b) Justice.
(c) Emphatic imagination.
(d) Optimism.

7. What do the people in the workshop say about the scenario comparing a Black person to a monkey?
(a) It was above their pay grade.
(b) It was something that should be taken up in court.
(c) It was supposed to be a joke.
(d) It was a fireable offense.

8. In which city in Virginia did a white supremacist rally take place in 2017?
(a) Front Royal.
(b) Charlottesville.
(c) Arlington.
(d) Dubray.

9. Which city in Michigan suffered from lead-tainted water?
(a) Dearborne.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Missoula.
(d) Flint.

10. 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 as if he may never get another job again.
(d) He feels they offered him a lower salary because he is white.

11. What subject did philosopher Charles Mills and sociologist Wulf Hund edit a volume of essays about?
(a) Simianization.
(b) The history of the American Civil War.
(c) Reparations.
(d) The history of slavery in Britain.

12. Which Florida governor used a racially charged expression, according to Rankine, when running in 2018 against a Black opponent?
(a) Ron DeSantis.
(b) Charlie Baker.
(c) Rick Scott.
(d) Evan Stone.

13. What question does Rankine ask about white being being able to speak to their own whiteness in Part I?
(a) If white people are all highly paid, why should they be moved to speak to their whiteness?
(b) If white people do not read history, how can they speak to their whiteness?
(c) If white people can't see their own whiteness, how can they speak to it?
(d) If white people are all tired of talking about police brutality, how can they speak to their whiteness?

14. What does Rankine notice in Part I about her "banter" with strangers?
(a) She never ends up talking with Asian people.
(b) She finds that she always ends up talking with other people working in academia.
(c) She ends up speaking with younger people constantly.
(d) She does not often fall into conversation with white men.

15. Which of the following does Rankine write that the "root of chastise" is?
(a) To chase.
(b) To garden.
(c) To feed.
(d) To make pure.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the CDC report about breast cancer disparities between white and Black people?

3. What does Notes on the State of Virginia conclude about the memories of Blacks and whites?

4. What song did Rankine and one of her white male co-travelers in Part I both love?

5. Who said, "I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife?"

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