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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 write that college admissions processes are full of?
(a) Corruption.
(b) Magic.
(c) Gray areas.
(d) Public grievance.

2. Which of the following does the Notes on the State of Virginia conclude about Blacks?
(a) They are less muscular than whites.
(b) They do not have as long of a lifespan as whites.
(c) They require less sleep than whites.
(d) They do not reproduce as easily as whites.

3. What does the Eve Fowler print in Rankine's home say?
(a) Anyone telling anything is telling that thing.
(b) Far from roses this way goes.
(c) When we are old, we can sleep.
(d) Your truth is your truth.

4. Which white documentary maker does Rankine study with her class?
(a) Jefferson Turfley.
(b) Whitney Dow.
(c) Michael Moore.
(d) Jan Ringlow.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which writer refers to "the afterlife of slavery"?

3. Which West Indian writer does Rankine refer to in Part I in her section about air travel?

4. What does Notes on the State of Virginia conclude about the memories of Blacks and whites?

5. What did Rankine tell her marriage counselor in front of her husband that was hurtful to her husband?

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