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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Jessie Johnson.
(c) Randall Stone.
(d) Cindy Hyde-Smith.

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

4. 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) Los Angeles.
(b) Phoenix.
(c) New York.
(d) Chicago.

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

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

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

8. 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 do not have enough food to eat; how can I be privileged?
(c) No whites, no service.
(d) I am not ashamed/afraid to be white.

9. 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.

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

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

12. Which of the following young Black men was violently killed for no cause in 2012?
(a) Rauri Stone.
(b) Trayvon Martin.
(c) George Floyd.
(d) Martin Davis.

13. What does Rankine think is the probable outcome of her conversations at the dinner party in Part III?
(a) At least one other guest will talk about her behind her back.
(b) The other guests will call the police.
(c) Her daughter will be embarrassed in school.
(d) She will not be invited back with this same group of people.

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 racist.
(c) I didn't know you didn't like me.
(d) I didn't know you were Black.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book of Wendy Travino's does Rankine's friend ask if she has read in Part IV?

2. Which senator does Rankine identify as having tried to justify white voters' reluctance to vote for Black candidates in the 2018 midterm elections?

3. What does Rankine write holds a place in her "referential memory" in a way it does not in white people's memory?

4. How did Scott Arndt react to hearing the phrase "white male privilege" from a colleague?

5. In what year did the Smithsonian Institution put on its first major show focused on the work of Latinos?

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