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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. In Part IV, what does Rankine write that a "force within the whiteness" does?
(a) Brings privilege to bear.
(b) Wins the fights.
(c) Silences Blacks.
(d) Forces the whiteness.

2. What disease was at the center of the Tuskegee tragedy?
(a) Cancer.
(b) AIDS.
(c) Syphilis.
(d) Tuberculosis.

3. Which U.S. senator once said, "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be in the front row"?
(a) Layton Hughes.
(b) Jessie Johnson.
(c) Randall Stone.
(d) Cindy Hyde-Smith.

4. What book of Wendy Travino's does Rankine's friend ask if she has read in Part IV?
(a) Si Se Puede: A Biography.
(b) Finding Their Power: Latin Americans in the Modern Age.
(c) Brazilian Is Not a Race.
(d) The New Latinos.

5. What did a young boy tell his classmate, who was the child of a friend of Rankine's, he had done by giving Goldilocks dark skin in a picture he colored?
(a) Made her a liar.
(b) Made her less intelligent.
(c) Improved her.
(d) Ruined her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following situations arose in which a white woman filmed and threatened a Black man in Part IV?

2. How did Scott Arndt react to hearing the phrase "white male privilege" from a colleague?

3. What does Rankine think is the probable outcome of her conversations at the dinner party in Part III?

4. Why is Rankine so mad at her friend for not following the instructions at the play in Part III?

5. Who did Laura Ingraham address her "Shut up and dribble" comment to, as cited by Rankine in Part IV?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one major way Rankine points out in which Black people are historically economically more disadvantaged than whites?

2. What happens to the young child of a friend of Rankine's when he colors Goldilocks's skin brown in his class?

3. What statement did Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders make about the 2018 midterm elections that Rankine criticizes?

4. What kinds of experiments does Rankine recall when discussing the young age at which most children begin exhibiting racial preferences?

5. What did the actress Eartha Kitt do in 1968 that led to her being blacklisted?

6. Which trope does Rankine feel she is "sailing closer and closer to" in Part III at a dinner party and why does she feel this way (149)?

7. What makes Rankine so angry at the play Fairview?

8. Why do you think Rankine includes the photo of the white man holding a sign saying "I am not ashamed/afraid to be white" on page 140?

9. What does the term "people of color" mean to Rankine?

10. What does Rankine mean when she asks the question, "Whose boys get to be boys?" (264).

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