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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Henderson Mellowin.
(c) Benjamin Eleanor Adam.
(d) Fabrize Stellin.

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

4. What does Rankine say of her own white husband's attitude towards white privilege?
(a) He does not like to engage on this topic.
(b) He thinks he understands and recognizes his own privilege, and he certainly understands the right terminology to use.
(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.

5. How does the document Notes on the State of Virginia characterize the griefs of Black people?
(a) They are transient.
(b) They are deep.
(c) They are lengthy.
(d) They are nonexistant.

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

7. What did the man on the plane tell Rankine he misrepresented to her in his story about his hometown?
(a) There was more racism and racist behavior there than he let on.
(b) He was actually from a poor family.
(c) He had actually witnessed police brutality against Blacks.
(d) He was not from the hometown he said he was.

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

9. Which poet described love partially as "a close reading"?
(a) Fabrize Fabricant.
(b) Adrienne Richardson.
(c) Emily Dickinson.
(d) Erica Hunt.

10. How old was Rankine when she met her husband?
(a) 45.
(b) 30.
(c) 25.
(d) 35.

11. Which object did white supremacist demonstrators in Virginia use in 2017 during rally there?
(a) Robeson flags.
(b) Swiss army knives.
(c) Tiki torches.
(d) Bakelite Flashlights.

12. What question does Rankine ask about white being being able to speak to their own whiteness in Part I?
(a) If white people can't see their own whiteness, how can they speak to it?
(b) If white people are all highly paid, why should they be moved to speak to their whiteness?
(c) If white people do not read history, how can they speak to their whiteness?
(d) If white people are all tired of talking about police brutality, how can they speak to their whiteness?

13. What does Notes on the State of Virginia conclude that the Black race could not produce?
(a) A dancer.
(b) A musician.
(c) A poet.
(d) A scientist.

14. What does Rankine's white male friend send her from the diversity workshop he attends?
(a) A request that she call him and manufacture a reason for him to have to leave.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Desperate looks.
(d) Crazy emojis.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What event occurred in Washington D.C. on August 8, 1925?

4. What did Rankine tell her marriage counselor in front of her husband that was hurtful to her husband?

5. What is one possible reason Rankine thinks white people do not develop close friendships with Black people?

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