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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who did Malcolm X say was the most disrespected, unprotected, and neglected person in America?
(a) The Asian woman.
(b) The Black woman.
(c) The Black man.
(d) The white woman.

6. What did Rankine identify as her "most corrupt thought of the year" in Part II?
(a) She wondered if she had been passed over for a promotion because she is a Black woman.
(b) She wanted to find out what her supervisor really thought of her.
(c) She hesitated to go to her daughter's parent-teacher conference because she did not want the teacher's potential anti-Black bias to be conferred onto her daughter.
(d) She wondered if her daughter would get into college.

7. Which Saturday Night Live actress tweeted about harassment comparing her to an ape?
(a) Kristen Wiig.
(b) Melissa Villasenor.
(c) Leslie Jones.
(d) Shasheer Zameta.

8. In her poem in Part I, what does Rankine say is in her voice when she says she feels herself slowing down?
(a) Humor.
(b) Fear.
(c) Marginalization.
(d) Resignation.

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

10. 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) He was not from the hometown he said he was.
(c) He was actually from a poor family.
(d) There was more racism and racist behavior there than he let on.

11. Which of the following does the Notes on the State of Virginia conclude about Blacks?
(a) They do not reproduce as easily as whites.
(b) They are less muscular than whites.
(c) They do not have as long of a lifespan as whites.
(d) They require less sleep than whites.

12. What is one possible reason Rankine thinks white people do not develop close friendships with Black people?
(a) White people do not know enough Black people.
(b) White people do not want to be confronted by white violence against Black people.
(c) White people are uncomfortable by the income gap between white and Black people.
(d) White people feel too guilty about white violence to have close friendships with Black people.

13. Which Supreme Court Justice does Rankine take issue with for his assertion that he had no connections at Yale?
(a) Neil Gorsuch.
(b) Brett Kavanaugh.
(c) Clarence Thomas.
(d) Samuel Alito.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Rankine write that the "root of chastise" is?

2. What does a white male friend of Rankine's who was recently passed over for a job tell Rankine about it?

3. What does Rankine identify as an "idle thought" when discussing her daughter's school and the white parents there?

4. What does Rankine write that college admissions processes are full of?

5. What is the name for the pictures photographers used to use to gauge skin tone?

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