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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following situations arose in which a white woman filmed and threatened a Black man in Part IV?
(a) A white woman questioned whether a Black man was really a police officer when, in fact, he was.
(b) A white woman accused a Black man of stealing her cell phone with no evidence.
(c) A white woman questioned whether a Black man lived in his own apartment building and told him she was uncomfortable with him entering it.
(d) A white woman accused a Black man of threatening her life when he asked her to put her dog on a leash.

4. 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) Malicious.
(c) Unhinged.
(d) Violent.

5. Which writer who gave a June 1981 keynote presentation at the National Women's Studies Association Conference that Rankine quotes from in Part III?
(a) Toni Morrison.
(b) Maya Angelou.
(c) Amanda Gorman.
(d) Audre Lorde.

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

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

8. What does Rankine write holds a place in her "referential memory" in a way it does not in white people's memory?
(a) The poem The White Man's Burden.
(b) The history of experimenting on Black people.
(c) The legacy of slavery.
(d) The legacy of Jim Crow laws.

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

10. What book does Rankine question if she has read herself too many times?
(a) The Color Purple.
(b) The New Jim Crow.
(c) Beloved.
(d) Stamped.

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

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

13. What question does a white man ask his female partner in an airport line that greatly turns Rankine and other passengers off in Part IV?
(a) Do you not realize how fat you are?
(b) Do you want me to hit you?
(c) Why can you never do anything right?
(d) Are you stupid?

14. 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 health insurance, and her friend did.
(b) Rankine did not have anyone else help her pay for college.
(c) Rankine did not have children, and her friend did.
(d) Rankine did not have any inherited wealth.

15. When was the word "privilege" first used, according to Rankine?
(a) The 1600s.
(b) The eighth century.
(c) The 1800s.
(d) The twelfth century.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rankine think about her friend's response to the incident at the play in Part III?

2. Which Black female candidate for governor in 2018 does Rankine identify as having endured racist attacks during her campaign?

3. Which actress does Rankine mention as being blacklisted in the 1960s?

4. Which fashion brand does Rankine write cultivated an aura of the white, wealthy country-club set throughout the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s?

5. Who wrote the play Rankine goes to see in Part III with a white friend?

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