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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of former First Lady Michelle Obama's memoir, which Rankine references in Part III?
(a) Unwinding.
(b) Finding My Voice.
(c) Becoming.
(d) Homegoing.

2. Why does one white man tell Rankine he is comfortable around Black people?
(a) He has a Black brother-in-law.
(b) He works with many Black people.
(c) He has a Black friend.
(d) He plays basketball.

3. What claim of psychologist Kristina Olson's does Rankine cite on children and racial preferences?
(a) By about 10 years of age, American children show racial preferences.
(b) By about 3 months old, American, Canadia, and Australian children show some signs of racial preferences.
(c) By 3 or 4 years of age, white children in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Europe show preferences for other white children.
(d) By about 15 years of age, American children show no real racial preferences.

4. Whose cells did researchers use for genetic experiments without her consent?
(a) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(b) Harriet Tubman.
(c) Henrietta Lacks.
(d) Rosa Parks.

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

6. What percentage of public school teachers are white, according to the National Center for Education Statistics' data for 2015-16?
(a) 30%.
(b) 70%.
(c) 81%.
(d) 92%.

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

8. What does Rankine believe is foundational to all our problems in America?
(a) Poisoned water systems.
(b) Unequal access to higher education.
(c) Economic inequality.
(d) Anti-Black racism.

9. In which city does Rankine's plane land in Part IV in which a woman has to be taken off the plane by EMTs?
(a) New York.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Phoenix.
(d) Los Angeles.

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

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

12. What does Rankine's white friend do to try to explain her actions at the play to Rankine after the fact?
(a) She has a long talk with Rankine.
(b) She writes Rankine a letter.
(c) She sends one of their other friends to explain things to Rankine.
(d) She publishes an op-ed in a major newspaper about her reasoning.

13. What specific topic did George Wallace run successfully on?
(a) Segregation.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Trying to reverse the outcome of the Civil War.
(d) Defeating the Voting Rights Act.

14. Why is Rankine so mad at her friend for not following the instructions at the play in Part III?
(a) She thinks it demonstrates her friend's lifelong racist behavior.
(b) She thinks it was her friend's way of showing how much more money she had than Rankine had.
(c) She thinks it was disrespectful to the playwright and that it was also a way of exercising white privilege.
(d) She thinks it was insulting to Martin Luther King Jr.

15. Which U.S. senator once said, "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be in the front row"?
(a) Cindy Hyde-Smith.
(b) Layton Hughes.
(c) Randall Stone.
(d) Jessie Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rankine write that she is trying to understand in the very beginning of Part III?

3. 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?

4. Who wrote the play Waiting for Godot?

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

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