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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 word or phrase did Joyelle McSweeney define that Rankine includes in Part II?
(a) Necropastoral.
(b) Illusory racism.
(c) Peripheral racism.
(d) Fungeal.

2. What James Baldwin poem does Rankine excerpt in Part I?
(a) The White Man's Guilt.
(b) Freedom From the Oppressor.
(c) Brutality.
(d) The White Man's Burden.

3. Who is Rankine's favorite musical group?
(a) Bob Dylan.
(b) The Commodores.
(c) Marvin Gaye.
(d) Bruce Springsteen.

4. What does Rankine write is "its own form of American optimism" in Part II?
(a) The idea that racism is a dynamic of youth and ignorance.
(b) The idea that elections can solve problems.
(c) The idea that everyone is free.
(d) The idea that America is a post-racial society.

5. What did Rankine and her husband spend much of their time doing for the past several decades?
(a) Teaching classes at small community colleges about racism.
(b) Making art addressing the racist treatment of American citizens.
(c) Raising foster children.
(d) Traveling to other countries to try to help set up health care centers for people of color.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Malcolm X say was the most disrespected, unprotected, and neglected person in America?

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

3. What did the man on the plane tell Rankine he misrepresented to her in his story about his hometown?

4. Who wrote the book The Color of Law?

5. What does the Eve Fowler print in Rankine's home say?

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