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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 is the name of former First Lady Michelle Obama's memoir, which Rankine references in Part III?
(a) Homegoing.
(b) Becoming.
(c) Unwinding.
(d) Finding My Voice.

2. Who did Laura Ingraham address her "Shut up and dribble" comment to, as cited by Rankine in Part IV?
(a) LeBron James.
(b) Kobe Bryant.
(c) Charles Barkley.
(d) Magic Johnson.

3. What is a common critical response to the Black Lives Matter slogan?
(a) All Lives Are Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others.
(b) No Lives Matter.
(c) All Lives Matter.
(d) Some Lives Matter.

4. What does Rankine think is the probable outcome of her conversations at the dinner party in Part III?
(a) She will not be invited back with this same group of people.
(b) At least one other guest will talk about her behind her back.
(c) Her daughter will be embarrassed in school.
(d) The other guests will call the police.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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?

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

5. In Part IV, what does Rankine write that a "force within the whiteness" does?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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