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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 267 - 335).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Rankine ask about the phrase "E pluribus unum" in Part V?
(a) What is the origin of this saying?
(b) Is it possible to live E pluribus unum?
(c) Who are we referring to when we use this saying?
(d) What other countries live by this saying?

2. Which of the following situations arose in which a white woman filmed and threatened a Black man in Part IV?
(a) A white woman questioned whether a Black man was really a police officer when, in fact, he was.
(b) A white woman accused a Black man of threatening her life when he asked her to put her dog on a leash.
(c) A white woman questioned whether a Black man lived in his own apartment building and told him she was uncomfortable with him entering it.
(d) A white woman accused a Black man of stealing her cell phone with no evidence.

3. Why did Rankine bolster the security at her own home?
(a) Some of her partners at the university had been targeted for work similar to hers.
(b) Her children had been harassed at school.
(c) She had received a flurry of hate mail.
(d) Her neighbor's house had been broken into recently.

4. What does Rankine write that she is trying to understand in the very beginning of Part III?
(a) Why telling a white male he has benefitted from white male privilege feels abusive to him.
(b) Why so many people declined to be interviewed for her book.
(c) Why saying someone is racist seems offensive to that person.
(d) Why working as a researcher pays so little.

5. Which theorist studied Google searches for the term evolution and found that the results were mostly portrayals of the height of evolution as the body of a white male?
(a) Nelson Benson.
(b) Fabrize Stellin.
(c) Benjamin Eleanor Adam.
(d) Henderson Mellowin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event occurred in Washington D.C. on August 8, 1925?

2. Which social justice activist talked often about the so-called culture of whiteness?

3. Which of the following young Black men was violently killed for no cause in 2012?

4. What idea does one white woman tell Rankine dying her hair blond returns her to?

5. What does Rankine believe is foundational to all our problems in America?

(see the answer key)

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