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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. Why did one white friend of Rankine's tell her she had to defend her to her other white friends often?
(a) Because the white friends did not understand Rankine's academic work.
(b) Because the white friends thought Rankine did not like them.
(c) Because the white friends thought Rankine was a radical.
(d) Because the white friends thought Rankine was too serious.

2. What word or phrase did Joyelle McSweeney define that Rankine includes in Part II?
(a) Fungeal.
(b) Illusory racism.
(c) Necropastoral.
(d) Peripheral racism.

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

4. What did police often ask Rankine and her husband when they were pulled over in New York City and New Jersey?
(a) How they knew each other.
(b) Whether they had weapons.
(c) Where they were going.
(d) How much money they had.

5. Which white documentary maker does Rankine study with her class?
(a) Jefferson Turfley.
(b) Jan Ringlow.
(c) Michael Moore.
(d) Whitney Dow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Saturday Night Live actress tweeted about harassment comparing her to an ape?

2. What does Rankine write is "its own form of American optimism" in Part II?

3. Which object did white supremacist demonstrators in Virginia use in 2017 during rally there?

4. Which BBC broadcaster compared the mixed-race royal baby to an ape?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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