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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 ubiquitous coffee shop chain experienced a scandal for the racial bias an employee exhibited towards customers there in 2018?
2. Which U.S. senator once said, "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be in the front row"?
3. What does Rankine's white friend tell her about why she refused to follow the play's instructions at the end of the play in Part III?
4. What does Rankine write holds a place in her "referential memory" in a way it does not in white people's memory?
5. What does Rankine insist at a dinner party in Part III was a major cause of Donald Trump's presidential election in 2016?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Rankine think it is particularly puzzling that the white female judge in Part IV seems to fear for her son's life as he moves to Brooklyn?
2. Which trope does Rankine feel she is "sailing closer and closer to" in Part III at a dinner party and why does she feel this way (149)?
3. Where does Rankine say the term "people of color" first came from?
4. What does the term "people of color" mean to Rankine?
5. What did the actress Eartha Kitt do in 1968 that led to her being blacklisted?
6. What does Rankine wonder about the woman in Part IV who has a medical emergency on the plane?
7. What cliched phrase that is often used to excuse terrible behavior on the part of boys and men did Rankine recall hearing after the Kavanaugh hearings in Part IV?
8. What makes Rankine so angry at the play Fairview?
9. What does Rankine mean when she asks the question, "Whose boys get to be boys?" (264).
10. What did former President Lyndon Johnson tell journalist Bill Moyers about white and Black relations?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the relationship between Rankine's serious illness (cancer), her decision to see a marriage therapist with her white husband, and her life-long cumulative experiences of racism? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
"I sometimes joke that my optimism has been stolen by white supremacy," Rankine writes towards the end of the book (327). Write an essay interpreting the larger meaning of this statement in the wider context of the book, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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