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

2. What ubiquitous coffee shop chain experienced a scandal for the racial bias an employee exhibited towards customers there in 2018?
(a) McDonald's.
(b) Xando.
(c) Starbucks.
(d) Caribou.

3. What does Rankine refer to when she uses the term "R and R" in Part III?
(a) Reparations and Reconstruction.
(b) Rest and Relaxation.
(c) Reconstruction and Remorse.
(d) Ruminations and Reparations.

4. Which writer refers to "the afterlife of slavery"?
(a) Saidya Hartman.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Zadie Smith.
(d) Zora Neal Hurston.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Ellen D. Wu's widely cited history on Asian Americans?

2. Which first lady does the actress who becomes blacklisted speak with in the 1960s, which leads to her being blacklisted?

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

4. What does Rankine's white friend do to try to explain her actions at the play to Rankine after the fact?

5. What year was the document Notes on the State of Virginia written in?

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