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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Pages 1- 69).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Rankine begin to undertake conversation with white men who are strangers?
(a) In airports and on airplanes.
(b) At her university.
(c) In restaurants.
(d) On subways.

2. Who popularized the phrase "white privilege"?
(a) Evie Barlow.
(b) Farrow Garland.
(c) Peggy McIntosh.
(d) Marshall McLuhan.

3. What does Rankine say of her own white husband's attitude towards white privilege?
(a) He has only recently begun to talk about white privilege.
(b) He thinks he understands and recognizes his own privilege, and he certainly understands the right terminology to use.
(c) He does not like to engage on this topic.
(d) He teaches a class about white privilege similar to the one Rankine teaches.

4. What song did Rankine and one of her white male co-travelers in Part I both love?
(a) Born in the U.S.A.
(b) Nightshift.
(c) The Devil Went Down to Georgia.
(d) Proud Mary.

5. What phrase does Rankine's seatmate on a flight in Part I say that Rankine says pulls an emergency brake in her brain?
(a) I am not a racist.
(b) I do not experience white privilege.
(c) I don't see color.
(d) I do not think Black Lives Matter is a legitimate organization.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name for the pictures photographers used to use to gauge skin tone?

2. Which university does Rankine work for?

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

4. What do the people in the workshop say about the scenario comparing a Black person to a monkey?

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?

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