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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 was the name of the 2017 Virginia rally of white supremacists?
(a) Unite the Right.
(b) Righters are Fighters.
(c) The New Socialist Democratic Movement.
(d) Conserve Our History.

2. What was the 2017 white supremacist rally in Virginia supposedly organized to respond to?
(a) Calls to remove the Confederate statue in Charlottesville.
(b) Affirmative action.
(c) The election of the first Black president.
(d) A new book by a prominent Black legal scholar.

3. What does Rankine think about her friend's response to the incident at the play in Part III?
(a) She is encouraged that they are engaging in conversation about what happened.
(b) She is thankful for the response but she stops speaking to her white friend.
(c) She is even more upset by it.
(d) She wants to ask her other colleagues what they think about the whole situation.

4. Who wrote the play Waiting for Godot?
(a) Seamus Heaney.
(b) Rowland Ross.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Ferdinand Rawlins.

5. What does Rankine write that George Wallace attributed his political success to?
(a) Lowering taxes.
(b) The articulation of racist rhetoric.
(c) Trying to preserve the history of the South.
(d) Helping farmers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What trope does Rankine worry she is "sailing closer" to in Part III?

2. In Part IV, what does Rankine write that a "force within the whiteness" does?

3. How does the document Notes on the State of Virginia characterize the griefs of Black people?

4. Which U.S. senator once said, "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be in the front row"?

5. Whose cells did researchers use for genetic experiments without her consent?

(see the answer key)

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