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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) Missoula.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Flint.
(d) Dearborne.

2. What event did Rankine recall having heard about occuring on her college campus the year before she attended as a freshman?
(a) A police-involved killing.
(b) A cross burning.
(c) A lynching.
(d) A mass shooting.

3. 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.

4. What is one possible reason Rankine thinks white people do not develop close friendships with Black people?
(a) White people are uncomfortable by the income gap between white and Black people.
(b) White people do not know enough Black people.
(c) White people feel too guilty about white violence to have close friendships with Black people.
(d) White people do not want to be confronted by white violence against Black people.

5. 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 teaches a class about white privilege similar to the one Rankine teaches.
(c) He does not like to engage on this topic.
(d) He has only recently begun to talk about white privilege.

6. Which social justice activist talked often about the so-called culture of whiteness?
(a) Justin Roamley.
(b) Fabian Fabrize.
(c) Ruby Sales.
(d) Marshall Maverick.

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

8. 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, as a white man, would have no trouble replacing her.
(c) Her husband did not really want to go to therapy.
(d) Her husband made a lot more money than she did.

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

10. What is the title of the class Rankine teaches on race at her university?
(a) Racism in America.
(b) The Tulsa Massacre and American History.
(c) Constructions of Whiteness.
(d) The History of Whiteness in America.

11. Which West Indian writer does Rankine refer to in Part I in her section about air travel?
(a) Edouard Glissant.
(b) Richland Rowrey.
(c) Edward Ismal.
(d) Jondry Finland.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rankine identify as an "idle thought" when discussing her daughter's school and the white parents there?

2. What does the Eve Fowler print in Rankine's home say?

3. What did the CDC report about breast cancer disparities between white and Black people?

4. What album of Beyonce's does Rankine discuss in Part II?

5. What do the people in the workshop say about the scenario comparing a Black person to a monkey?

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