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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 the name for the pictures photographers used to use to gauge skin tone?

2. What did police often ask Rankine and her husband when they were pulled over in New York City and New Jersey?

3. What was the name of the 2017 Virginia rally of white supremacists?

4. What did the CDC report about breast cancer disparities between white and Black people?

5. What question does Rankine ask about white being being able to speak to their own whiteness in Part I?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rankine feel contemplating the overwhelmingly white parents and teachers at her daughter's school?

2. What painful incident does Rankine recall happening on her college campus the year prior to her attendance there in 1981?

3. What is the tension for Rankine as she expresses it in her poem in Part I in the call to change?

4. Why does Rankine undertake a series of casual conversations with white male travelers on airplanes?

5. What does Rankine quote Malcolm X as saying about Black women in America?

6. What is the name of the class Rankine eventually began teaching and continues to teach at Yale?

7. What assertion that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kanavagh made in his senate confirmation hearing does Rankine take issue with in Part I?

8. What rude and racist behavior does Rankine routinely encounter at airports?

9. What statement of Hillary Clinton's does Rankine recall and quote on page 133, calling it appalling but not un-American?

10. What does Rankine worry about regarding the way many people - teachers included - seem to view Black children in general?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Write an essay discussing Rankine's analysis of the Trump administration's family separation policy regarding immigrant families at the southern border, citing specific references to the text to help support 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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