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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 does Rankine refer to when she uses the term "R and R" in Part III?
2. What rhetorical question does Rankine ask following the 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearings about the differences in how Americans treat young Black men and young white men?
3. How did khaki pants and the color khaki begin to become fashionable in America in the 1950s?
4. What is a common critical response to the Black Lives Matter slogan?
5. What specific topic did George Wallace run successfully on?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did former President Lyndon Johnson tell journalist Bill Moyers about white and Black relations?
2. In the very beginning of Part III, what does Rankine write that she is attempting to understand?
3. What statement did Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders make about the 2018 midterm elections that Rankine criticizes?
4. What is one major way Rankine points out in which Black people are historically economically more disadvantaged than whites?
5. What does the white man in the hallway in Part III say to Rankine that she finds flabbergasting?
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 makes Rankine so angry at the play Fairview?
8. 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)?
9. Why does Rankine stop herself abruptly when comparing herself and a white friend in Part III?
10. Where does Rankine say the term "people of color" first came from?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay exploring Rankine's discussion of the idea of reparations, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
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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