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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is Rankine so mad at her friend for not following the instructions at the play in Part III?
(a) She thinks it was disrespectful to the playwright and that it was also a way of exercising white privilege.
(b) She thinks it was her friend's way of showing how much more money she had than Rankine had.
(c) She thinks it demonstrates her friend's lifelong racist behavior.
(d) She thinks it was insulting to Martin Luther King Jr.

3. What does Rankine insist at a dinner party in Part III was a major cause of Donald Trump's presidential election in 2016?
(a) The Democrats' incompetence.
(b) Russian interference.
(c) Racism.
(d) A very good communications team.

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

9. What does Rankine quote comedian Chris Rock as saying in Part IV?
(a) White people should walk in his shoes for one day.
(b) No white man in the audience would change places with him, and he is rich.
(c) Black people are survivors and white people could learn from that.
(d) Black people's humor comes from much tragedy.

10. 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 15 years of age, American children show no real racial preferences.
(d) By about 3 months old, American, Canadia, and Australian children show some signs of racial preferences.

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

12. What is the title of Ellen D. Wu's widely cited history on Asian Americans?
(a) Creating Community.
(b) Finding Their Place: Asian Americans Today.
(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.

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

14. 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) Why can you never do anything right?
(b) Are you stupid?
(c) Do you not realize how fat you are?
(d) Do you want me to hit you?

15. What does the white female judge say in Part IV about her son that shocks Rankine?
(a) She has forbidden him to propose to his Black girlfriend.
(b) He joined the army but does not want to serve in the same unit with Blacks.
(c) She is worried about his safety because he is moving to Brooklyn.
(d) He is not allowed to attend a university in a majority Black city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rankine's white friend tell her about why she refused to follow the play's instructions at the end of the play in Part III?

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

3. What television series starring Reese Witherspoon does Rankine reference in the text in Part III?

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?

5. What phrase does Rankine say Barack Obama's 2008 campaign slogan had its roots in?

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