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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which BBC broadcaster compared the mixed-race royal baby to an ape?
(a) Will Henderson.
(b) Marie Mayhem.
(c) Charlie Roads.
(d) Danny Baker.

4. 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) He was not from the hometown he said he was.
(d) There was more racism and racist behavior there than he let on.

5. What does Rankine repeatedly say she wants for her daughter?
(a) The world.
(b) A good college education.
(c) The freedom to be the artist she can be.
(d) A country where her daughter can be Vice President.

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

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

8. 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) America is a post-racist society after electing a Black president.
(c) Blacks have to get up and fight for themselves.
(d) Voter suppression laws make no difference.

9. What did Rankine tell her marriage counselor in front of her husband that was hurtful to her husband?
(a) Her husband was not as talented of a writer as she was.
(b) Her husband did not really want to go to therapy.
(c) Her husband, as a white man, would have no trouble replacing her.
(d) Her husband made a lot more money than she did.

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

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

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

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

14. What does the Eve Fowler print in Rankine's home say?
(a) Anyone telling anything is telling that thing.
(b) When we are old, we can sleep.
(c) Far from roses this way goes.
(d) Your truth is your truth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife?"

2. Which of the following does the Notes on the State of Virginia conclude about Blacks?

3. Which object did white supremacist demonstrators in Virginia use in 2017 during rally there?

4. From what event does Rankine include a photograph of men giving a Nazi salute in front of a burning swastika in Part II?

5. Who popularized the phrase "white privilege"?

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