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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 question does a white man ask his female partner in an airport line that greatly turns Rankine and other passengers off in Part IV?
(a) Why can you never do anything right?
(b) Do you not realize how fat you are?
(c) Are you stupid?
(d) Do you want me to hit you?

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

3. 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?
(a) Ruined her.
(b) Improved her.
(c) Made her a liar.
(d) Made her less intelligent.

4. What book of Wendy Travino's does Rankine's friend ask if she has read in Part IV?
(a) Brazilian Is Not a Race.
(b) Finding Their Power: Latin Americans in the Modern Age.
(c) The New Latinos.
(d) Si Se Puede: A Biography.

5. What does Rankine write at the end of her section about police interactions with Black citizens in Part IV?
(a) Many white politicians have tried to sideline and belittle the Black Lives Matter movement.
(b) Blacks Lives Matter is a step in the right direction.
(c) Brutality and mistreatment are not isolated incidents.
(d) There need to be new laws governing police mistreatment of Blacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one dinner party guest try to turn people's attention to to change the subject from racism that Rankine brings up?

2. What is the name of former First Lady Michelle Obama's memoir, which Rankine references in Part III?

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. When was the word "privilege" first used, according to Rankine?

5. Who wrote the play Rankine goes to see in Part III with a white friend?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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?

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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