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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 was the 2017 white supremacist rally in Virginia supposedly organized to respond to?
(a) Affirmative action.
(b) A new book by a prominent Black legal scholar.
(c) Calls to remove the Confederate statue in Charlottesville.
(d) The election of the first Black president.

2. Which social justice activist talked often about the so-called culture of whiteness?
(a) Marshall Maverick.
(b) Fabian Fabrize.
(c) Ruby Sales.
(d) Justin Roamley.

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

4. How old was Rankine when she met her husband?
(a) 45.
(b) 25.
(c) 35.
(d) 30.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Rankine write that the "root of chastise" is?

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

3. What does Rankine say she wants her daughter to be able to "negotiate the world" with?

4. Which Florida governor used a racially charged expression, according to Rankine, when running in 2018 against a Black opponent?

5. Which poet described love partially as "a close reading"?

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