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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 term, coined by Orlando Patterson, does Frank Wilderson III borrow, according to Rankine?
(a) Social death.
(b) Social invisibility.
(c) Social capital.
(d) Social landing.

2. Which Florida governor used a racially charged expression, according to Rankine, when running in 2018 against a Black opponent?
(a) Rick Scott.
(b) Ron DeSantis.
(c) Charlie Baker.
(d) Evan Stone.

3. What event did Rankine recall having heard about occuring on her college campus the year before she attended as a freshman?
(a) A mass shooting.
(b) A cross burning.
(c) A lynching.
(d) A police-involved killing.

4. Who popularized the phrase "white privilege"?
(a) Farrow Garland.
(b) Evie Barlow.
(c) Peggy McIntosh.
(d) Marshall McLuhan.

5. How does the document Notes on the State of Virginia characterize the griefs of Black people?
(a) They are lengthy.
(b) They are transient.
(c) They are deep.
(d) They are nonexistant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the people in the workshop say about the scenario comparing a Black person to a monkey?

2. What year was the document Notes on the State of Virginia written in?

3. What is the name for the pictures photographers used to use to gauge skin tone?

4. What is the title of the class Rankine teaches on race at her university?

5. Who is Rankine's favorite musical group?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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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