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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) Screaming.
(b) Reproach.
(c) Fortitude.
(d) Directness.

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

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

4. 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 doll tests.
(c) The singer tests.
(d) The Lucifer tests.

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

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

7. Which Supreme Court justice's confirmation hearings in 2018 included testimony of his alleged abuse towards a woman?
(a) Neil Gorsuch.
(b) Clarence Thomas.
(c) Brett Kavanaugh.
(d) Michael Hawley.

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) All Lives Matter.
(c) Some Lives Matter.
(d) No Lives Matter.

9. What does Rankine do to small pieces of the text of her poem on page 213 that is visually striking?
(a) Put the words in italics.
(b) Puts the words in red text.
(c) Puts the words in sanskrit.
(d) Puts the words in very bold text.

10. Which kinds of experiments does Rankine cite from Dr. Kenneth and Mamie Clark on racism?
(a) The "doll tests" with children choosing dolls of different skin colors.
(b) The "Lucifer" experiments.
(c) The "marshmallow" tests.
(d) The "Singer" tests.

11. What does Rankine refer to "the gloom" in her poem in Part III?
(a) The lack of nuance in discussions about racism.
(b) The way white people often deflect discussions about racism.
(c) The off-white of white.
(d) Toadyism.

12. Which former U.S. President wrote parts of Notes on the State of Virginia?
(a) John Adams.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Andrew Jackson.
(d) George Washington.

13. What is the audience instructed to do at the end of the play in Part III?
(a) They were asked to get a glass of water and take it outside.
(b) They were asked to clap very loudly.
(c) They were asked to pull the fire alarms in the theater.
(d) White audience members were invited onto the stage and Black audience members were asked to stay in their seats.

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

15. Which play does Rankine go to see with a white friend of hers in Part III?
(a) The Others.
(b) Fairview.
(c) Humans.
(d) Disgraced.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rankine question how far away she can get from by using the language of inquiry in Part IV?

2. What book does Rankine question if she has read herself too many times?

3. 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?

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

5. In Part IV, what does Rankine write that a "force within the whiteness" does?

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