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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 135 - 208).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does one dinner party guest try to turn people's attention to to change the subject from racism that Rankine brings up?
(a) The dog.
(b) The dessert tray.
(c) Rankine's beautiful clothes.
(d) The rainbow outside.

3. Who did Malcolm X say was the most disrespected, unprotected, and neglected person in America?
(a) The white woman.
(b) The Black woman.
(c) The Asian woman.
(d) The Black man.

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 was not as talented of a writer as she was.
(c) Her husband, as a white man, would have no trouble replacing her.
(d) Her husband did not really want to go to therapy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Supreme Court Justice does Rankine take issue with for his assertion that he had no connections at Yale?

2. What does Rankine write that George Wallace attributed his political success to?

3. Which of the following does the Notes on the State of Virginia conclude about Blacks?

4. What does Rankine say American voter registration laws can function as in some states?

5. What does Rankine's white male friend send her from the diversity workshop he attends?

(see the answer key)

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