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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did Rankine bolster the security at her own home?
(a) Her children had been harassed at school.
(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 neighbor's house had been broken into recently.

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

4. What did police often ask Rankine and her husband when they were pulled over in New York City and New Jersey?
(a) Whether they had weapons.
(b) Where they were going.
(c) How they knew each other.
(d) How much money they had.

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

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

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

9. What did the CDC report about breast cancer disparities between white and Black people?
(a) Black women have less access to treatments for breast cancer than white women do.
(b) Black women get breast cancer at higher rates than white women do.
(c) Black and white women get breast cancer at about the same rate, but Black women die at higher rates from breast cancer than white women do.
(d) Black women see doctors at lower rates than white women do.

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

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

12. What is the name for the pictures photographers used to use to gauge skin tone?
(a) Black Cards.
(b) White Cards.
(c) Shirley Cards.
(d) Paint Cards.

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

14. 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 1934 National Socialist Rally in Berlin.
(b) The National Socialist Movement Rally in Georgia in 2018.
(c) The 1932 National Socialist Rally in Reinhold.
(d) The 1956 National Socialist Rally in Beindorf.

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

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 Supreme Court Justice does Rankine take issue with for his assertion that he had no connections at Yale?

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

4. Which poet described love partially as "a close reading"?

5. What illness did Rankine suffer and recover from?

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