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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 question does Rankine ask about white being being able to speak to their own whiteness in Part I?
(a) If white people can't see their own whiteness, how can they speak to it?
(b) If white people are all highly paid, why should they be moved to speak to their whiteness?
(c) If white people are all tired of talking about police brutality, how can they speak to their whiteness?
(d) If white people do not read history, how can they speak to their whiteness?

2. What does Rankine write that college admissions processes are full of?
(a) Gray areas.
(b) Public grievance.
(c) Magic.
(d) Corruption.

3. Which BBC broadcaster compared the mixed-race royal baby to an ape?
(a) Danny Baker.
(b) Charlie Roads.
(c) Will Henderson.
(d) Marie Mayhem.

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) Far from roses this way goes.
(d) Your truth is your truth.

5. What does Rankine notice in Part I about her "banter" with strangers?
(a) She ends up speaking with younger people constantly.
(b) She does not often fall into conversation with white men.
(c) She finds that she always ends up talking with other people working in academia.
(d) She never ends up talking with Asian people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a white male friend of Rankine's who was recently passed over for a job tell Rankine about it?

2. 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?

3. What did Rankine identify as her "most corrupt thought of the year" in Part II?

4. What does Notes on the State of Virginia conclude about the memories of Blacks and whites?

5. How old was Rankine when she met her husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Shirley Cards?

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

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

4. 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?

5. Why does Rankine undertake a series of casual conversations with white male travelers on airplanes?

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

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

8. In Part II, why does a white friend of Rankine's tell her she has to defend Rankine to her own white friends?

9. What assertion that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kanavagh made in his senate confirmation hearing does Rankine take issue with in Part I?

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

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