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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which city in Michigan suffered from lead-tainted water?
(a) Flint.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Dearborne.
(d) Missoula.
2. What did police often ask Rankine and her husband when they were pulled over in New York City and New Jersey?
(a) Where they were going.
(b) Whether they had weapons.
(c) How much money they had.
(d) How they knew each other.
3. What subject did philosopher Charles Mills and sociologist Wulf Hund edit a volume of essays about?
(a) Reparations.
(b) The history of slavery in Britain.
(c) The history of the American Civil War.
(d) Simianization.
4. How does the writer Rachel Kaadzi Ghanash describe the online community of violent white supremacists like the 2015 Charleston church shooter?
(a) They are highly educated, middle-aged, white, 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 mixed-race, somewhat educated, older, and heavily armed.
5. 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) Nelson Benson.
(b) Benjamin Eleanor Adam.
(c) Henderson Mellowin.
(d) Fabrize Stellin.
6. Which university does Rankine work for?
(a) Yale.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Stanford.
7. What does Rankine say of her own white husband's attitude towards white privilege?
(a) He thinks he understands and recognizes his own privilege, and he certainly understands the right terminology to use.
(b) He does not like to engage on this topic.
(c) He has only recently begun to talk about white privilege.
(d) He teaches a class about white privilege similar to the one Rankine teaches.
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 do the people in the workshop say about the scenario comparing a Black person to a monkey?
(a) It was above their pay grade.
(b) It was a fireable offense.
(c) It was something that should be taken up in court.
(d) It was supposed to be a joke.
10. Which white documentary maker does Rankine study with her class?
(a) Michael Moore.
(b) Jefferson Turfley.
(c) Jan Ringlow.
(d) Whitney Dow.
11. Which of the following does Rankine write that the "root of chastise" is?
(a) To feed.
(b) To make pure.
(c) To garden.
(d) To chase.
12. Who did Malcolm X say was the most disrespected, unprotected, and neglected person in America?
(a) The Black woman.
(b) The Black man.
(c) The Asian woman.
(d) The white woman.
13. Which writer refers to "the afterlife of slavery"?
(a) Zora Neal Hurston.
(b) Saidya Hartman.
(c) Zadie Smith.
(d) Langston Hughes.
14. What does Notes on the State of Virginia conclude about the memories of Blacks and whites?
(a) Whites have better memories than Blacks.
(b) White children have better memories than Black adults.
(c) Blacks have better memories than whites.
(d) They are about equal.
15. What does Rankine repeatedly say she wants for her daughter?
(a) A country where her daughter can be Vice President.
(b) The freedom to be the artist she can be.
(c) A good college education.
(d) The world.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Rankine write that college admissions processes are full of?
2. What does the Eve Fowler print in Rankine's home say?
3. Which social justice activist talked often about the so-called culture of whiteness?
4. What source does Rankine recommend for an extended argument for integration?
5. Which BBC broadcaster compared the mixed-race royal baby to an ape?
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