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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 Rankine say she wants her daughter to be able to "negotiate the world" with?
(a) Optimism.
(b) Justice.
(c) Faith in the police.
(d) Emphatic imagination.

2. Which city in Michigan suffered from lead-tainted water?
(a) Dearborne.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Missoula.
(d) Flint.

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

4. What did Rankine tell her marriage counselor in front of her husband that was hurtful to her husband?
(a) Her husband made a lot more money than she did.
(b) Her husband, as a white man, would have no trouble replacing her.
(c) Her husband was not as talented of a writer as she was.
(d) Her husband did not really want to go to therapy.

5. Which Saturday Night Live actress tweeted about harassment comparing her to an ape?
(a) Melissa Villasenor.
(b) Shasheer Zameta.
(c) Leslie Jones.
(d) Kristen Wiig.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event did Rankine recall having heard about occuring on her college campus the year before she attended as a freshman?

2. What does Rankine write that college admissions processes are full of?

3. What was the name of the 2017 Virginia rally of white supremacists?

4. What did the CDC report about breast cancer disparities between white and Black people?

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

(see the answer key)

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