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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Rankine identify as an "idle thought" when discussing her daughter's school and the white parents there?
(a) The idea that someday America might really be a post-racial society.
(b) The idea of affirmative action.
(c) The idea of a shared anxiety with white parents regarding the lack of diversity at the school.
(d) The idea of playing the race card.

4. What illness did Rankine suffer and recover from?
(a) Pancreatic cancer.
(b) Diabetes.
(c) A heart attack.
(d) Breast cancer.

5. What word or phrase did Joyelle McSweeney define that Rankine includes in Part II?
(a) Fungeal.
(b) Necropastoral.
(c) Peripheral racism.
(d) Illusory racism.

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

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

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 they offered him a lower salary because he is white.
(c) He feels as if he may never get another job again.
(d) He feels he would not have been good at the job anyway.

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

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

11. 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?
(a) Fabrize Stellin.
(b) Henderson Mellowin.
(c) Benjamin Eleanor Adam.
(d) Nelson Benson.

12. What is the title of the class Rankine teaches on race at her university?
(a) Constructions of Whiteness.
(b) Racism in America.
(c) The Tulsa Massacre and American History.
(d) The History of Whiteness in America.

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

14. What year was the document Notes on the State of Virginia written in?
(a) 1790.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1805.
(d) 1781.

15. From what event does Rankine include a photograph of men giving a Nazi salute in front of a burning swastika in Part II?
(a) The 1956 National Socialist Rally in Beindorf.
(b) The National Socialist Movement Rally in Georgia in 2018.
(c) The 1932 National Socialist Rally in Reinhold.
(d) The 1934 National Socialist Rally in Berlin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which BBC broadcaster compared the mixed-race royal baby to an ape?

3. Which white documentary maker does Rankine study with her class?

4. What event did Rankine recall having heard about occuring on her college campus the year before she attended as a freshman?

5. What does Rankine's white male friend send her from the diversity workshop he attends?

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