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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the title of Ellen D. Wu's widely cited history on Asian Americans?
(a) Finding Their Place: Asian Americans Today.
(b) The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority.
(c) The Price of Integration: The Origins of the Model Minority and Asian Americans.
(d) Creating Community.

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

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

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

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

7. How did khaki pants and the color khaki begin to become fashionable in America in the 1950s?
(a) They helped kids blend into their surroundings so as not to attract unwanted attention.
(b) Families liked them because they were easy to wash.
(c) Fashion brands starting having their models wear them to parks.
(d) Returning soldiers from the war brought their army-issued khakis to campus to wear.

8. What is a common critical response to the Black Lives Matter slogan?
(a) All Lives Are Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others.
(b) Some Lives Matter.
(c) All Lives Matter.
(d) No Lives Matter.

9. 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) He is not allowed to attend a university in a majority Black city.
(d) She has forbidden him to propose to his Black girlfriend.

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

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

12. 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 marshmallow tests.
(b) The Lucifer tests.
(c) The doll tests.
(d) The singer tests.

13. What name does Rankine write that Senator Ted Cruz was formerly known by?
(a) Percival Edward Cruz.
(b) Ben Parnell Cruz.
(c) Rafael Edward Cruz.
(d) Jose Robin Cruz.

14. What does Rankine say to her white friend at the end of the play they see together in Part III?
(a) I didn't know you had this much hate in your heart.
(b) I didn't know you were Black.
(c) I didn't know you were racist.
(d) I didn't know you didn't like me.

15. What word did a preschool teacher for a friend of Rankine's four-year old son use for the child when he had a temper tantrum at school?
(a) Malevolent.
(b) Unhinged.
(c) Malicious.
(d) Violent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What trope does Rankine worry she is "sailing closer" to in Part III?

2. What does Rankine think is the probable outcome of her conversations at the dinner party in Part III?

3. What phrase do people who want to excuse men's inappropriate or even abusive behavior towards women often say, according to Rankine?

4. What disease was at the center of the Tuskegee tragedy?

5. What does Rankine write at the end of her section about police interactions with Black citizens in Part IV?

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