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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. What is one possible reason Rankine thinks white people do not develop close friendships with Black people?
2. What is the name for the pictures photographers used to use to gauge skin tone?
3. What word or phrase did Joyelle McSweeney define that Rankine includes in Part II?
4. What was the name of the 2017 Virginia rally of white supremacists?
5. From what event does Rankine include a photograph of men giving a Nazi salute in front of a burning swastika in Part II?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What rude and racist behavior does Rankine routinely encounter at airports?
3. What is the tension for Rankine as she expresses it in her poem in Part I in the call to change?
4. What does Rankine describe Beyonce's album Lemonade as dealing with?
5. What is the origin of this book's title?
6. What assertion that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kanavagh made in his senate confirmation hearing does Rankine take issue with in Part I?
7. What historical document from the 1700s does Rankine include extensive sections of in Part II?
8. 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?
9. What is the name of the class Rankine eventually began teaching and continues to teach at Yale?
10. Why does Rankine undertake a series of casual conversations with white male travelers on airplanes?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Rankine interpret the fact that Barack Obama was elected to the U.S. presidency twice in terms of what this fact reveals about racism in America? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 2
Rankine employs a unique blend of poetry, historical documents, transcripts of conversation, and prose in this book. How do you think her choice of styles and structure affects the reader's experience? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 3
At the end of the book, Rankine reveals that she asked a friend to read a draft of the book and the friend told her that the book did not lay out any real "strategy" (334). Do you agree with this critique? Why or why not? Write an essay explaining your answer.
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