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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 event occurred in Washington D.C. on August 8, 1925?
(a) Bombings of several Black churches.
(b) A large Ku Klux Klan rally.
(c) A hurricane that damaged the city.
(d) A deadly clash between anti-racist protestors and white supremacist groups.

2. Which social justice activist talked often about the so-called culture of whiteness?
(a) Ruby Sales.
(b) Marshall Maverick.
(c) Fabian Fabrize.
(d) Justin Roamley.

3. What does Rankine repeatedly say she wants for her daughter?
(a) A good college education.
(b) A country where her daughter can be Vice President.
(c) The freedom to be the artist she can be.
(d) The world.

4. What does the Eve Fowler print in Rankine's home say?
(a) When we are old, we can sleep.
(b) Anyone telling anything is telling that thing.
(c) Your truth is your truth.
(d) Far from roses this way goes.

5. Who wrote the book The Color of Law?
(a) Maya Angelou.
(b) Ruby Sales.
(c) Jane Zellen.
(d) Richard Rothstein.

Short Answer Questions

1. What illness did Rankine suffer and recover from?

2. Which writer refers to "the afterlife of slavery"?

3. What did police often ask Rankine and her husband when they were pulled over in New York City and New Jersey?

4. What does one white man whose son did not gain entry by early admission to Yale tell Rankine he thinks is part of the problem?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason does one white man offer to Rankine as an explanation as to why his son did not get accepted through early decision to Yale University?

2. What does a white friend of Rankine's tell her about white people speaking amongst themselves about racism?

3. What does Rankine quote Malcolm X as saying about Black women in America?

4. What is the tension for Rankine as she expresses it in her poem in Part I in the call to change?

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

6. Why does Rankine think it might be best for just her white husband to attend her daughter's parent-teacher conference?

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

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

9. What painful incident does Rankine recall happening on her college campus the year prior to her attendance there in 1981?

10. What are Shirley Cards?

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