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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 did Rankine tell her marriage counselor in front of her husband that was hurtful to her husband?
2. Which writer refers to "the afterlife of slavery"?
3. What phrase does Rankine's seatmate on a flight in Part I say that Rankine says pulls an emergency brake in her brain?
4. What album of Beyonce's does Rankine discuss in Part II?
5. Which of the following does Rankine write that the "root of chastise" is?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
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 is the tension for Rankine as she expresses it in her poem in Part I in the call to change?
5. Why does Rankine undertake a series of casual conversations with white male travelers on airplanes?
6. How does Rankine feel contemplating the overwhelmingly white parents and teachers at her daughter's school?
7. In Part II, why does a white friend of Rankine's tell her she has to defend Rankine to her own white friends?
8. What is a major reason Rankine decides to go to marriage counseling with her husband?
9. What does Rankine quote Malcolm X as saying about Black women in America?
10. Who popularized the phrase "white privilege" and when did it begin being used more often?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why do you think Rankine chooses to juxtapose excerpts from the document "Notes on the State of Virginia," which was written in 1782, and photographs and descriptions of the white supremacist "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville in 2017? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
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
Why does Rankine's white friend's behavior at the play "Fairview" upset her so much? How does the white friend's written response change Rankine's view on the events of that night? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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