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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. Which columnist and fiction writer does Rankine include a tweet from about similar racist treatment in airports in Part I?
(a) Jesmyn Willow.
(b) Marjorie Bearing.
(c) Roxane Gay.
(d) Micheline Marrow.

2. What subject did philosopher Charles Mills and sociologist Wulf Hund edit a volume of essays about?
(a) Simianization.
(b) The history of the American Civil War.
(c) Reparations.
(d) The history of slavery in Britain.

3. What does Rankine say she wants her daughter to be able to "negotiate the world" with?
(a) Optimism.
(b) Justice.
(c) Emphatic imagination.
(d) Faith in the police.

4. About how many whites do not have any Black friends, according to a study cited by the Washington Post reporter Christopher Ingraham?
(a) 55%.
(b) 75%.
(c) 35%.
(d) 20%.

5. What does Rankine say American voter registration laws can function as in some states?
(a) De facto Jim Crow laws.
(b) The precursors to riots.
(c) Infringement on free speech.
(d) Ways to employ more people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the book The Color of Law?

2. Which city in Michigan suffered from lead-tainted water?

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

4. What was the name of the 2017 Virginia rally of white supremacists?

5. What James Baldwin poem does Rankine excerpt in Part I?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rankine describe Beyonce's album Lemonade as dealing with?

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

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

4. Who popularized the phrase "white privilege" and when did it begin being used more often?

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

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

7. What is one major event in Rankine's life that she discusses in Part II as forcing her to reassess her life as a whole?

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

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

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

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