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

2. Which university does Rankine work for?
(a) Yale.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Stanford.
(d) Harvard.

3. What did the man on the plane tell Rankine he misrepresented to her in his story about his hometown?
(a) He was not from the hometown he said he was.
(b) He was actually from a poor family.
(c) There was more racism and racist behavior there than he let on.
(d) He had actually witnessed police brutality against Blacks.

4. What did Rankine identify as her "most corrupt thought of the year" in Part II?
(a) She hesitated to go to her daughter's parent-teacher conference because she did not want the teacher's potential anti-Black bias to be conferred onto her daughter.
(b) She wondered if she had been passed over for a promotion because she is a Black woman.
(c) She wanted to find out what her supervisor really thought of her.
(d) She wondered if her daughter would get into college.

5. What was the name of the 2017 Virginia rally of white supremacists?
(a) The New Socialist Democratic Movement.
(b) Unite the Right.
(c) Righters are Fighters.
(d) Conserve Our History.

Short Answer Questions

1. In her poem in Part I, what does Rankine say is in her voice when she says she feels herself slowing down?

2. Which term, coined by Orlando Patterson, does Frank Wilderson III borrow, according to Rankine?

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

4. What did the CDC report about breast cancer disparities between white and Black people?

5. From what event does Rankine include a photograph of men giving a Nazi salute in front of a burning swastika in Part II?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What historical document from the 1700s does Rankine include extensive sections of in Part II?

7. 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?

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

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

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