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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the CDC report about breast cancer disparities between white and Black people?
(a) Black women have less access to treatments for breast cancer than white women do.
(b) Black and white women get breast cancer at about the same rate, but Black women die at higher rates from breast cancer than white women do.
(c) Black women get breast cancer at higher rates than white women do.
(d) Black women see doctors at lower rates than white women do.

2. What song did Rankine and one of her white male co-travelers in Part I both love?
(a) Nightshift.
(b) Proud Mary.
(c) The Devil Went Down to Georgia.
(d) Born in the U.S.A.

3. What source does Rankine recommend for an extended argument for integration?
(a) Elizabeth Anderson's The Imperative of Integration.
(b) Alex Haley's Roots.
(c) Toni Morrison's Beloved.
(d) Plato's The Cave.

4. Which object did white supremacist demonstrators in Virginia use in 2017 during rally there?
(a) Robeson flags.
(b) Tiki torches.
(c) Swiss army knives.
(d) Bakelite Flashlights.

5. What James Baldwin poem does Rankine excerpt in Part I?
(a) Freedom From the Oppressor.
(b) The White Man's Guilt.
(c) Brutality.
(d) The White Man's Burden.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rankine's white male friend send her from the diversity workshop he attends?

2. Who is Rankine's favorite musical group?

3. What does Rankine say American voter registration laws can function as in some states?

4. Which of the following does Rankine write that the "root of chastise" is?

5. How does the writer Rachel Kaadzi Ghanash describe the online community of violent white supremacists like the 2015 Charleston church shooter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the origin of this book's title?

2. What is one problem Rankine has with the scenario her white friend on a diversity training tells her about regarding a classroom situation?

3. How does Rankine feel contemplating the overwhelmingly white parents and teachers at her daughter's school?

4. What rude and racist behavior does Rankine routinely encounter at airports?

5. What does Rankine worry about regarding the way many people - teachers included - seem to view Black children in general?

6. What image does Rankine include in the book that a British media personality, Danny Baker, tweeted after the birth of the royal family's mixed-race baby in 2019?

7. What is the name of the class Rankine eventually began teaching and continues to teach at Yale?

8. What is a major reason Rankine decides to go to marriage counseling with her husband?

9. What is the significance of the "Unite the Right" rally that took place in Charlottesville Virginia in 2017, according to Rankine?

10. What statement of Hillary Clinton's does Rankine recall and quote on page 133, calling it appalling but not un-American?

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