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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 135 - 208).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Indiana police captain challenges another police captain over an issue of white privilege in a transcript in Part III?
(a) Riley Winston.
(b) Penny Holder.
(c) Rainie Blackenship.
(d) Carri Weber.

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

3. What does one white man tell Rankine he believes is his greatest privilege in his life in Part III?
(a) His weight.
(b) His education.
(c) His accent.
(d) His height.

4. What specific topic did George Wallace run successfully on?
(a) Segregation.
(b) Defeating the Voting Rights Act.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Trying to reverse the outcome of the Civil War.

5. What did the man on the plane tell Rankine he misrepresented to her in his story about his hometown?
(a) He was not from the hometown he said he was.
(b) There was more racism and racist behavior there than he let on.
(c) He had actually witnessed police brutality against Blacks.
(d) He was actually from a poor family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of patterns did some psychologists study in preschool teachers to research racial bias?

2. What does Rankine identify as an "idle thought" when discussing her daughter's school and the white parents there?

3. 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?

4. What does Rankine write that George Wallace attributed his political success to?

5. What disease was at the center of the Tuskegee tragedy?

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