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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 at the end of her section about police interactions with Black citizens in Part IV?
(a) Blacks Lives Matter is a step in the right direction.
(b) There need to be new laws governing police mistreatment of Blacks.
(c) Many white politicians have tried to sideline and belittle the Black Lives Matter movement.
(d) Brutality and mistreatment are not isolated incidents.

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

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

4. 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 very bold text.
(c) Puts the words in red text.
(d) Puts the words in sanskrit.

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

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

7. What does Rankine refer to when she uses the term "R and R" in Part III?
(a) Ruminations and Reparations.
(b) Reparations and Reconstruction.
(c) Rest and Relaxation.
(d) Reconstruction and Remorse.

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

9. Which comedian does Rankine call out in Part IV for revealing parts of his racial identity but not revealing other parts of his racial identity?
(a) Louis C.K.
(b) John Mulaney.
(c) Chris Rock.
(d) Dave Chapelle.

10. 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) Cindy Hyde-Smith.
(d) Randall Stone.

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

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

13. 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) Maya Angelou.
(b) Audre Lorde.
(c) Toni Morrison.
(d) Amanda Gorman.

14. What claim of psychologist Kristina Olson's does Rankine cite on children and racial preferences?
(a) By about 10 years of age, American children show racial preferences.
(b) By 3 or 4 years of age, white children in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Europe show preferences for other white children.
(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. What does Rankine think about her friend's response to the incident at the play in Part III?
(a) She is even more upset by it.
(b) She is encouraged that they are engaging in conversation about what happened.
(c) She wants to ask her other colleagues what they think about the whole situation.
(d) She is thankful for the response but she stops speaking to her white friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. What does conversing risk mean, according to Rankine in Part IV?

4. Where does Rankine say the phrase "people of color" originally came from?

5. What is the title of Ellen D. Wu's widely cited history on Asian Americans?

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