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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 71 - 134).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Notes on the State of Virginia conclude that the Black race could not produce?
(a) A dancer.
(b) A musician.
(c) A scientist.
(d) A poet.

2. What did police often ask Rankine and her husband when they were pulled over in New York City and New Jersey?
(a) How they knew each other.
(b) Whether they had weapons.
(c) Where they were going.
(d) How much money they had.

3. What do the people in the workshop say about the scenario comparing a Black person to a monkey?
(a) It was a fireable offense.
(b) It was supposed to be a joke.
(c) It was something that should be taken up in court.
(d) It was above their pay grade.

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

5. Which columnist and fiction writer does Rankine include a tweet from about similar racist treatment in airports in Part I?
(a) Marjorie Bearing.
(b) Micheline Marrow.
(c) Roxane Gay.
(d) Jesmyn Willow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Rankine tell her marriage counselor in front of her husband that was hurtful to her husband?

2. Who is Rankine's favorite musical group?

3. What subject did philosopher Charles Mills and sociologist Wulf Hund edit a volume of essays about?

4. What James Baldwin poem does Rankine excerpt in Part I?

5. Which term, coined by Orlando Patterson, does Frank Wilderson III borrow, according to Rankine?

(see the answer key)

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