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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 specific topic did George Wallace run successfully on?
2. What does one dinner party guest try to turn people's attention to to change the subject from racism that Rankine brings up?
3. What is the title of Wendy Roth's book that Rankine cites in Part IV?
4. Which Supreme Court justice's confirmation hearings in 2018 included testimony of his alleged abuse towards a woman?
5. What did a young boy tell his classmate, who was the child of a friend of Rankine's, he had done by giving Goldilocks dark skin in a picture he colored?
Short Essay Questions
1. What kinds of experiments does Rankine recall when discussing the young age at which most children begin exhibiting racial preferences?
2. What upsets Rankine the most about the behavior of the other guests at the dinner party in Part III?
3. What does Rankine think will be the likely fallout from her speaking at the dinner party the way she does in Part III?
4. Why does Rankine stop herself abruptly when comparing herself and a white friend in Part III?
5. Why do you think Rankine includes the photo of the white man holding a sign saying "I am not ashamed/afraid to be white" on page 140?
6. What did the actress Eartha Kitt do in 1968 that led to her being blacklisted?
7. What makes Rankine so angry at the play Fairview?
8. What is one major way Rankine points out in which Black people are historically economically more disadvantaged than whites?
9. What does the white female judge say about her son in Part IV that shocks Rankine?
10. In Part IV, what kinds of conversations does Rankine include excerpts from?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay discussing the symbolism and significance behind blond hair in Rankine's lengthy analysis of it, especially regarding women of color's decision to dye their hair blonde.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Write an essay analyzing Rankine's treatment of the broad theme of conversations. What does Rankine seem to believe conversations can accomplish - and fail to accomplish - when it comes to a national conversation in America about race and racism?
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