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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 say to her white friend at the end of the play they see together in Part III?
(a) I didn't know you were Black.
(b) I didn't know you didn't like me.
(c) I didn't know you had this much hate in your heart.
(d) I didn't know you were racist.

2. Which of the following situations arose in which a white woman filmed and threatened a Black man in Part IV?
(a) A white woman questioned whether a Black man was really a police officer when, in fact, he was.
(b) A white woman accused a Black man of stealing her cell phone with no evidence.
(c) A white woman accused a Black man of threatening her life when he asked her to put her dog on a leash.
(d) A white woman questioned whether a Black man lived in his own apartment building and told him she was uncomfortable with him entering it.

3. Which Indiana police captain challenges another police captain over an issue of white privilege in a transcript in Part III?
(a) Riley Winston.
(b) Carri Weber.
(c) Penny Holder.
(d) Rainie Blackenship.

4. What television series starring Reese Witherspoon does Rankine reference in the text in Part III?
(a) Little Fires Everywhere.
(b) Homecoming.
(c) Wysteria Lane.
(d) Big Little Lies.

5. Who wrote the play Waiting for Godot?
(a) Seamus Heaney.
(b) Rowland Ross.
(c) Ferdinand Rawlins.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

Short Answer Questions

1. What phrase does Rankine say Barack Obama's 2008 campaign slogan had its roots in?

2. What does Rankine think about the preschool teacher's tears when her friend removed her young son from the private school?

3. Whose cells did researchers use for genetic experiments without her consent?

4. What is the title of Ellen D. Wu's widely cited history on Asian Americans?

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

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 does the white man in the hallway in Part III say to Rankine that she finds flabbergasting?

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

4. What did former President Lyndon Johnson tell journalist Bill Moyers about white and Black relations?

5. 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?

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

7. In Part IV, what kinds of conversations does Rankine include excerpts from?

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

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

10. 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)?

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