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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 209 - 266).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Ellen D. Wu's widely cited history on Asian Americans?
(a) The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority.
(b) Creating Community.
(c) Finding Their Place: Asian Americans Today.
(d) The Price of Integration: The Origins of the Model Minority and Asian Americans.

2. What does Rankine write is "its own form of American optimism" in Part II?
(a) The idea that everyone is free.
(b) The idea that racism is a dynamic of youth and ignorance.
(c) The idea that America is a post-racial society.
(d) The idea that elections can solve problems.

3. What illness did Rankine suffer and recover from?
(a) Breast cancer.
(b) Diabetes.
(c) Pancreatic cancer.
(d) A heart attack.

4. What is a common critical response to the Black Lives Matter slogan?
(a) No Lives Matter.
(b) Some Lives Matter.
(c) All Lives Matter.
(d) All Lives Are Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others.

5. Whose cells did researchers use for genetic experiments without her consent?
(a) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(b) Henrietta Lacks.
(c) Rosa Parks.
(d) Harriet Tubman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which experiment results were used in the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case to show the adverse effect of racism on Black children?

2. Which Latino poet does Rankine discuss briefly with her friend in Part IV?

3. What does the Eve Fowler print in Rankine's home say?

4. What does one dinner party guest try to turn people's attention to to change the subject from racism that Rankine brings up?

5. 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?

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