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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 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"?
(a) Fortitude.
(b) Directness.
(c) Screaming.
(d) Reproach.

2. Which first lady does the actress who becomes blacklisted speak with in the 1960s, which leads to her being blacklisted?
(a) Rosalind Carter.
(b) Mamie Eisenhower.
(c) Lady Bird Johnson.
(d) Jackie Kennedy.

3. Which former U.S. President wrote parts of Notes on the State of Virginia?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) George Washington.
(c) John Adams.
(d) Andrew Jackson.

4. What does Rankine write that she is trying to understand in the very beginning of Part III?
(a) Why saying someone is racist seems offensive to that person.
(b) Why telling a white male he has benefitted from white male privilege feels abusive to him.
(c) Why working as a researcher pays so little.
(d) Why so many people declined to be interviewed for her book.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which Indiana police captain challenges another police captain over an issue of white privilege in a transcript in Part III?

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

4. What question does a white man ask his female partner in an airport line that greatly turns Rankine and other passengers off in Part IV?

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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Where does Rankine say the term "people of color" first came from?

7. 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?

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. Why does Rankine stop herself abruptly when comparing herself and a white friend in Part III?

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

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