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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which columnist and fiction writer does Rankine include a tweet from about similar racist treatment in airports in Part I?
(a) Marjorie Bearing.
(b) Micheline Marrow.
(c) Jesmyn Willow.
(d) Roxane Gay.

2. 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 are uncomfortable by the income gap between white and Black people.
(c) White people do not want to be confronted by white violence against Black people.
(d) White people feel too guilty about white violence to have close friendships with Black people.

3. What James Baldwin poem does Rankine excerpt in Part I?
(a) Freedom From the Oppressor.
(b) The White Man's Guilt.
(c) Brutality.
(d) The White Man's Burden.

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

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

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

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

8. What does the document Notes on the State of Virginia say that Blacks are much inferior to whites in?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Visual acuity.
(c) Reason.
(d) Physical strength.

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

10. 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.

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

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

13. Who is Rankine's favorite musical group?
(a) The Commodores.
(b) Bruce Springsteen.
(c) Marvin Gaye.
(d) Bob Dylan.

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

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 1934 National Socialist Rally in Berlin.
(c) The 1932 National Socialist Rally in Reinhold.
(d) The National Socialist Movement Rally in Georgia in 2018.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did one white friend of Rankine's tell her she had to defend her to her other white friends often?

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

3. What is the title of the class Rankine teaches on race at her university?

4. What does Rankine write is "its own form of American optimism" in Part II?

5. What does Rankine say American voter registration laws can function as in some states?

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