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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rankine write that she would have preferred from the woman who tried to change the subject from racism at the dinner party instead of "false civility"?
(a) Directness.
(b) Screaming.
(c) Fortitude.
(d) Reproach.

2. What book of Wendy Travino's does Rankine's friend ask if she has read in Part IV?
(a) Finding Their Power: Latin Americans in the Modern Age.
(b) Brazilian Is Not a Race.
(c) Si Se Puede: A Biography.
(d) The New Latinos.

3. Who did Laura Ingraham address her "Shut up and dribble" comment to, as cited by Rankine in Part IV?
(a) Charles Barkley.
(b) Magic Johnson.
(c) Kobe Bryant.
(d) LeBron James.

4. What is one major difference Rankine understands between her life and that of her dear white friend in Part III, even though they share many similarities?
(a) Rankine did not have children, and her friend did.
(b) Rankine did not have any inherited wealth.
(c) Rankine did not have anyone else help her pay for college.
(d) Rankine did not have health insurance, and her friend did.

5. What does the white female judge say in Part IV about her son that shocks Rankine?
(a) She is worried about his safety because he is moving to Brooklyn.
(b) He joined the army but does not want to serve in the same unit with Blacks.
(c) She has forbidden him to propose to his Black girlfriend.
(d) He is not allowed to attend a university in a majority Black city.

6. Where does Rankine say the phrase "people of color" originally came from?
(a) The court case Brown v. The Board of Education.
(b) Women of color.
(c) The great migration.
(d) The court case Loving v. Virginia.

7. Which experiment results were used in the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case to show the adverse effect of racism on Black children?
(a) The Lucifer tests.
(b) The doll tests.
(c) The marshmallow tests.
(d) The singer tests.

8. Which Black female candidate for governor in 2018 does Rankine identify as having endured racist attacks during her campaign?
(a) Ramona Jones.
(b) Val Demmings.
(c) Stacey Abrams.
(d) Roberta Johnson.

9. What does conversing risk mean, according to Rankine in Part IV?
(a) Destruction.
(b) The unraveling of the said and the unsaid.
(c) Silence.
(d) Persecution.

10. What does Rankine think about the preschool teacher's tears when her friend removed her young son from the private school?
(a) She thinks the teacher was suspicious.
(b) She thinks the teacher must have been remorseful.
(c) She thinks of white female fragility and victimhood.
(d) She thinks the teacher feared for her own job.

11. Who wrote the play Rankine goes to see in Part III with a white friend?
(a) Neil Simon.
(b) Leslie Hinds.
(c) Jackie Sibblies Drury.
(d) Stephen Retrow.

12. What ubiquitous coffee shop chain experienced a scandal for the racial bias an employee exhibited towards customers there in 2018?
(a) Xando.
(b) Starbucks.
(c) Caribou.
(d) McDonald's.

13. What was one argument the NYPD Union lawyers put forth in the death of Eric Garner at police hands, according to Rankine?
(a) Garner would have died anyway because he was obese.
(b) Garner would have been convicted by a jury for his crimes.
(c) Police would not have killed Garner if he had been standing on the corner with other friends of his.
(d) Garner forced police to use lethal force against him.

14. Which actress does Rankine mention as being blacklisted in the 1960s?
(a) Halle Berry.
(b) Marilyn Monroe.
(c) Eartha Kitt.
(d) Sandra Bullock.

15. What television series starring Reese Witherspoon does Rankine reference in the text in Part III?
(a) Big Little Lies.
(b) Homecoming.
(c) Little Fires Everywhere.
(d) Wysteria Lane.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which kinds of experiments does Rankine cite from Dr. Kenneth and Mamie Clark on racism?

2. Which play does Rankine go to see with a white friend of hers in Part III?

3. How did khaki pants and the color khaki begin to become fashionable in America in the 1950s?

4. What did a young boy tell his classmate, who was the child of a friend of Rankine's, he had done by giving Goldilocks dark skin in a picture he colored?

5. Which comedian does Rankine call out in Part IV for revealing parts of his racial identity but not revealing other parts of his racial identity?

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