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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 does Rankine say of her own white husband's attitude towards white privilege?
(a) He teaches a class about white privilege similar to the one Rankine teaches.
(b) He does not like to engage on this topic.
(c) He thinks he understands and recognizes his own privilege, and he certainly understands the right terminology to use.
(d) He has only recently begun to talk about white privilege.

2. What does Rankine outright accuse the other guests at the dinner party of doing to her in trying to change the subject away from racism?
(a) Being as bad as the president himself.
(b) Being complicit in violence.
(c) Silencing her.
(d) Trying to get her fired.

3. What did a young boy tell his classmate, who was the child of a friend of Rankine's, he had done by giving Goldilocks dark skin in a picture he colored?
(a) Improved her.
(b) Made her a liar.
(c) Made her less intelligent.
(d) Ruined her.

4. In which city in Virginia did a white supremacist rally take place in 2017?
(a) Dubray.
(b) Charlottesville.
(c) Arlington.
(d) Front Royal.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which city in Michigan suffered from lead-tainted water?

3. How does the document Notes on the State of Virginia characterize the griefs of Black people?

4. What is one major difference Rankine understands between her life and that of her dear white friend in Part III, even though they share many similarities?

5. What does Rankine write that she is trying to understand in the very beginning of Part III?

(see the answer key)

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