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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 senator does Rankine identify as having tried to justify white voters' reluctance to vote for Black candidates in the 2018 midterm elections?
(a) Richard Blumenthal.
(b) Mitch McConnell.
(c) Bernie Sanders.
(d) Graham Glenwald.

2. Which kinds of experiments does Rankine cite from Dr. Kenneth and Mamie Clark on racism?
(a) The "Singer" tests.
(b) The "Lucifer" experiments.
(c) The "marshmallow" tests.
(d) The "doll tests" with children choosing dolls of different skin colors.

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

4. What does Rankine's white friend do to try to explain her actions at the play to Rankine after the fact?
(a) She has a long talk with Rankine.
(b) She writes Rankine a letter.
(c) She publishes an op-ed in a major newspaper about her reasoning.
(d) She sends one of their other friends to explain things to Rankine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which comedian does Rankine call out in Part IV for revealing parts of his racial identity but not revealing other parts of his racial identity?

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

3. What is one major difference Rankine understands between her life and that of her dear white friend in Part III, even though they share many similarities?

4. Which U.S. senator once said, "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be in the front row"?

5. What does Rankine do to small pieces of the text of her poem on page 213 that is visually striking?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. What does Rankine wonder about the woman in Part IV who has a medical emergency on the plane?

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

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

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

8. 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)?

9. 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?

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

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