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

2. 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) Jessie Johnson.
(c) Randall Stone.
(d) Layton Hughes.

3. What ubiquitous coffee shop chain experienced a scandal for the racial bias an employee exhibited towards customers there in 2018?
(a) McDonald's.
(b) Starbucks.
(c) Xando.
(d) Caribou.

4. What word did a preschool teacher for a friend of Rankine's four-year old son use for the child when he had a temper tantrum at school?
(a) Malicious.
(b) Malevolent.
(c) Violent.
(d) Unhinged.

5. What does Rankine do to small pieces of the text of her poem on page 213 that is visually striking?
(a) Put the words in italics.
(b) Puts the words in red text.
(c) Puts the words in very bold text.
(d) Puts the words in sanskrit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What specific topic did George Wallace run successfully on?

2. What kinds of patterns did some psychologists study in preschool teachers to research racial bias?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What upsets Rankine the most about the behavior of the other guests at the dinner party in Part III?

3. 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)?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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