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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which university does Rankine work for?
2. What event occurred in Washington D.C. on August 8, 1925?
3. Which of the following does Rankine write that the "root of chastise" is?
4. From what event does Rankine include a photograph of men giving a Nazi salute in front of a burning swastika in Part II?
5. Which Florida governor used a racially charged expression, according to Rankine, when running in 2018 against a Black opponent?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Rankine think it might be best for just her white husband to attend her daughter's parent-teacher conference?
2. What reason does one white man offer to Rankine as an explanation as to why his son did not get accepted through early decision to Yale University?
3. What is one major event in Rankine's life that she discusses in Part II as forcing her to reassess her life as a whole?
4. What does Rankine quote Malcolm X as saying about Black women in America?
5. What does Rankine describe Beyonce's album Lemonade as dealing with?
6. What image does Rankine include in the book that a British media personality, Danny Baker, tweeted after the birth of the royal family's mixed-race baby in 2019?
7. What painful incident does Rankine recall happening on her college campus the year prior to her attendance there in 1981?
8. What is the tension for Rankine as she expresses it in her poem in Part I in the call to change?
9. In Part II, why does a white friend of Rankine's tell her she has to defend Rankine to her own white friends?
10. What statement of Hillary Clinton's does Rankine recall and quote on page 133, calling it appalling but not un-American?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
At the end of the book, Rankine asks herself the searching question of whether understanding itself constitutes real change, and she says she is not sure. Write an essay explaining whether you think understanding is change.
Essay Topic 2
How does Rankine feel about, and react to, the idea of "color-blindness" and to people's insistence that they do not "see color"? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
How does tennis star Naomi Osaka's experiences with the media highlight the ubiquity of racism not just in the United States but in other countries, too? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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