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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 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) Violent.
(b) Malevolent.
(c) Malicious.
(d) Unhinged.

2. Which writer who gave a June 1981 keynote presentation at the National Women's Studies Association Conference that Rankine quotes from in Part III?
(a) Amanda Gorman.
(b) Audre Lorde.
(c) Toni Morrison.
(d) Maya Angelou.

3. What phrase does Rankine say Barack Obama's 2008 campaign slogan had its roots in?
(a) Nike's advertising slogan.
(b) The United Farm Workers of America's phrase, Si Se Puede.
(c) A Louis Armstrong song.
(d) A Billie Holiday song.

4. What was one argument the NYPD Union lawyers put forth in the death of Eric Garner at police hands, according to Rankine?
(a) Police would not have killed Garner if he had been standing on the corner with other friends of his.
(b) Garner would have died anyway because he was obese.
(c) Garner would have been convicted by a jury for his crimes.
(d) Garner forced police to use lethal force against him.

5. What does Rankine write that George Wallace attributed his political success to?
(a) The articulation of racist rhetoric.
(b) Helping farmers.
(c) Lowering taxes.
(d) Trying to preserve the history of the South.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did khaki pants and the color khaki begin to become fashionable in America in the 1950s?

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

3. Where does Rankine say the phrase "people of color" originally came from?

4. What is the title of Wendy Roth's book that Rankine cites in Part IV?

5. Which play does Rankine go to see with a white friend of hers in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. 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)?

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