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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 event occurred in Washington D.C. on August 8, 1925?
(a) Bombings of several Black churches.
(b) A hurricane that damaged the city.
(c) A deadly clash between anti-racist protestors and white supremacist groups.
(d) A large Ku Klux Klan rally.

2. Which social justice activist talked often about the so-called culture of whiteness?
(a) Justin Roamley.
(b) Ruby Sales.
(c) Marshall Maverick.
(d) Fabian Fabrize.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Rankine ask about white being being able to speak to their own whiteness in Part I?

2. What does Rankine notice in Part I about her "banter" with strangers?

3. What song did Rankine and one of her white male co-travelers in Part I both love?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the tension for Rankine as she expresses it in her poem in Part I in the call to change?

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

6. What are Shirley Cards?

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

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 What historical document from the 1700s does Rankine include extensive sections of in Part II?

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

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

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