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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 the teacher feared for her own job.
(d) She thinks of white female fragility and victimhood.

3. Which fashion brand does Rankine write cultivated an aura of the white, wealthy country-club set throughout the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s?
(a) Tommy Hilfiger.
(b) Ralph Lauren.
(c) Mode.
(d) Ashbrown.

4. What does Rankine question how far away she can get from by using the language of inquiry in Part IV?
(a) Racism.
(b) Blame.
(c) Confrontation.
(d) Peace.

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

6. Who wrote the play Waiting for Godot?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Ferdinand Rawlins.
(c) Seamus Heaney.
(d) Rowland Ross.

7. What is the title of Wendy Roth's book that Rankine cites in Part IV?
(a) The New Latinos in America.
(b) The Great Second Migration: Latinos and the Integration Politics.
(c) Texas Today: Latinos Find Their Political Voice.
(d) Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race.

8. 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 disrespectful to the playwright and that it was also a way of exercising white privilege.
(c) She thinks it was insulting to Martin Luther King Jr.
(d) She thinks it was her friend's way of showing how much more money she had than Rankine had.

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

10. What does Rankine write that George Wallace attributed his political success to?
(a) Helping farmers.
(b) Trying to preserve the history of the South.
(c) Lowering taxes.
(d) The articulation of racist rhetoric.

11. In Part IV, what does Rankine write that a "force within the whiteness" does?
(a) Brings privilege to bear.
(b) Forces the whiteness.
(c) Wins the fights.
(d) Silences Blacks.

12. What does one dinner party guest try to turn people's attention to to change the subject from racism that Rankine brings up?
(a) Rankine's beautiful clothes.
(b) The dessert tray.
(c) The rainbow outside.
(d) The dog.

13. Which first lady does the actress who becomes blacklisted speak with in the 1960s, which leads to her being blacklisted?
(a) Rosalind Carter.
(b) Mamie Eisenhower.
(c) Lady Bird Johnson.
(d) Jackie Kennedy.

14. What does the sign the man in the photograph on page 140 of this book say?
(a) I am not white male privilege.
(b) I am not ashamed/afraid to be white.
(c) No whites, no service.
(d) I do not have enough food to eat; how can I be privileged?

15. What does Rankine think about her friend's response to the incident at the play in Part III?
(a) She is thankful for the response but she stops speaking to her white friend.
(b) She is even more upset by it.
(c) She is encouraged that they are engaging in conversation about what happened.
(d) She wants to ask her other colleagues what they think about the whole situation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What rhetorical question does Rankine ask following the 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearings about the differences in how Americans treat young Black men and young white men?

2. What does Rankine insist at a dinner party in Part III was a major cause of Donald Trump's presidential election in 2016?

3. What claim of psychologist Kristina Olson's does Rankine cite on children and racial preferences?

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

5. What ubiquitous coffee shop chain experienced a scandal for the racial bias an employee exhibited towards customers there in 2018?

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