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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) Brutality and mistreatment are not isolated incidents.
(b) Many white politicians have tried to sideline and belittle the Black Lives Matter movement.
(c) Blacks Lives Matter is a step in the right direction.
(d) There need to be new laws governing police mistreatment of Blacks.

2. What disease was at the center of the Tuskegee tragedy?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) AIDS.
(c) Syphilis.
(d) Cancer.

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

4. 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) Chris Rock.
(c) Dave Chapelle.
(d) John Mulaney.

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

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

7. What book of Wendy Travino's does Rankine's friend ask if she has read in Part IV?
(a) Si Se Puede: A Biography.
(b) The New Latinos.
(c) Finding Their Power: Latin Americans in the Modern Age.
(d) Brazilian Is Not a Race.

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

9. What did a young boy tell his classmate, who was the child of a friend of Rankine's, he had done by giving Goldilocks dark skin in a picture he colored?
(a) Made her less intelligent.
(b) Improved her.
(c) Ruined her.
(d) Made her a liar.

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

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

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

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

14. What does Rankine write that she would have preferred from the woman who tried to change the subject from racism at the dinner party instead of "false civility"?
(a) Screaming.
(b) Directness.
(c) Fortitude.
(d) Reproach.

15. 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) Chicago.
(c) Phoenix.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of public school teachers are white, according to the National Center for Education Statistics' data for 2015-16?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. Which former U.S. President wrote parts of Notes on the State of Virginia?

5. What phrase do people who want to excuse men's inappropriate or even abusive behavior towards women often say, according to Rankine?

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