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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. What does Rankine question how far away she can get from by using the language of inquiry in Part IV?
3. In Part IV, what does Rankine write that a "force within the whiteness" does?
4. Which play does Rankine go to see with a white friend of hers in Part III?
5. What does one white man tell Rankine he believes is his greatest privilege in his life in Part III?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Rankine eventually come to better understand her friend's actions at the play Fairview?
2. 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?
3. 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?
4. 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)?
5. What is one major way Rankine points out in which Black people are historically economically more disadvantaged than whites?
6. What happens to the young child of a friend of Rankine's when he colors Goldilocks's skin brown in his class?
7. What kinds of experiments does Rankine recall when discussing the young age at which most children begin exhibiting racial preferences?
8. What does Rankine think will be the likely fallout from her speaking at the dinner party the way she does in Part III?
9. What upsets Rankine the most about the behavior of the other guests at the dinner party in Part III?
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 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 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Rankine employs a unique blend of poetry, historical documents, transcripts of conversation, and prose in this book.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
Rankine writes towards the end of the book, "E plurbis unum might have been the first national mistake" (333). What do you think she means by this? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
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