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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 outright accuse the other guests at the dinner party of doing to her in trying to change the subject away from racism?
(a) Silencing her.
(b) Being as bad as the president himself.
(c) Being complicit in violence.
(d) Trying to get her fired.

2. How did Scott Arndt react to hearing the phrase "white male privilege" from a colleague?
(a) He said he thought it was a sad day for America.
(b) He said it aroused suspicion in him.
(c) He said it was extremely offensive.
(d) He said it was fair.

3. Whose cells did researchers use for genetic experiments without her consent?
(a) Rosa Parks.
(b) Harriet Tubman.
(c) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(d) Henrietta Lacks.

4. What book does Rankine question if she has read herself too many times?
(a) The Color Purple.
(b) Beloved.
(c) The New Jim Crow.
(d) Stamped.

5. What does Rankine's white friend tell her about why she refused to follow the play's instructions at the end of the play in Part III?
(a) She did not want to.
(b) She felt sick and could not stand up.
(c) She had never been to a play like that before and she thought the instructions were a joke.
(d) She had to take a phone call instead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rankine write at the end of her section about police interactions with Black citizens in Part IV?

2. What does Rankine believe is foundational to all our problems in America?

3. What disease was at the center of the Tuskegee tragedy?

4. What does Rankine write that she would have preferred from the woman who tried to change the subject from racism at the dinner party instead of "false civility"?

5. What does Rankine write that she is trying to understand in the very beginning of Part III?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Rankine think it is particularly puzzling that the white female judge in Part IV seems to fear for her son's life as he moves to Brooklyn?

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

3. In the very beginning of Part III, what does Rankine write that she is attempting to understand?

4. What cliched phrase that is often used to excuse terrible behavior on the part of boys and men did Rankine recall hearing after the Kavanaugh hearings in Part IV?

5. What does the white female judge say about her son in Part IV that shocks Rankine?

6. In Part IV, what does a white man say to a white woman - ostensibly his partner - when she arrives at the airport gate late?

7. What does Rankine think will be the likely fallout from her speaking at the dinner party the way she does in Part III?

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

9. How does Rankine eventually come to better understand her friend's actions at the play Fairview?

10. 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?

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