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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Rankine bolster the security at her own home?
(a) Her neighbor's house had been broken into recently.
(b) Some of her partners at the university had been targeted for work similar to hers.
(c) She had received a flurry of hate mail.
(d) Her children had been harassed at school.

2. 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) His son's grades were not high enough.
(c) The Asians are flooding the Ivy Leagues.
(d) He did not donate any money to the university.

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

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

5. What song did Rankine and one of her white male co-travelers in Part I both love?
(a) Born in the U.S.A.
(b) Proud Mary.
(c) Nightshift.
(d) The Devil Went Down to Georgia.

6. Which term, coined by Orlando Patterson, does Frank Wilderson III borrow, according to Rankine?
(a) Social capital.
(b) Social death.
(c) Social landing.
(d) Social invisibility.

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

8. What source does Rankine recommend for an extended argument for integration?
(a) Elizabeth Anderson's The Imperative of Integration.
(b) Plato's The Cave.
(c) Toni Morrison's Beloved.
(d) Alex Haley's Roots.

9. What was the 2017 white supremacist rally in Virginia supposedly organized to respond to?
(a) Affirmative action.
(b) The election of the first Black president.
(c) A new book by a prominent Black legal scholar.
(d) Calls to remove the Confederate statue in Charlottesville.

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

11. About how many whites do not have any Black friends, according to a study cited by the Washington Post reporter Christopher Ingraham?
(a) 75%.
(b) 35%.
(c) 55%.
(d) 20%.

12. Where does Rankine begin to undertake conversation with white men who are strangers?
(a) In restaurants.
(b) At her university.
(c) On subways.
(d) In airports and on airplanes.

13. Which West Indian writer does Rankine refer to in Part I in her section about air travel?
(a) Richland Rowrey.
(b) Jondry Finland.
(c) Edouard Glissant.
(d) Edward Ismal.

14. Which university does Rankine work for?
(a) Yale.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Stanford.
(d) Princeton.

15. At the very end of Part II, what statement does Rankine recall a white woman saying to her several weeks earlier?
(a) America is a post-racist society after electing a Black president.
(b) Voter suppression laws make no difference.
(c) Blacks have to get up and fight for themselves.
(d) Antiracist work makes no difference.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following does the Notes on the State of Virginia conclude about Blacks?

3. What word or phrase did Joyelle McSweeney define that Rankine includes in Part II?

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

5. From what event does Rankine include a photograph of men giving a Nazi salute in front of a burning swastika in Part II?

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