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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 is one possible reason Rankine thinks white people do not develop close friendships with Black people?
(a) White people are uncomfortable by the income gap between white and Black people.
(b) White people do not want to be confronted by white violence against Black people.
(c) White people feel too guilty about white violence to have close friendships with Black people.
(d) White people do not know enough Black people.

2. What event did Rankine recall having heard about occuring on her college campus the year before she attended as a freshman?
(a) A mass shooting.
(b) A lynching.
(c) A cross burning.
(d) A police-involved killing.

3. What does Rankine's white friend tell her about why she refused to follow the play's instructions at the end of the play in Part III?
(a) She did not want to.
(b) She felt sick and could not stand up.
(c) She had never been to a play like that before and she thought the instructions were a joke.
(d) She had to take a phone call instead.

4. 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 has only recently begun to talk about white privilege.
(c) He thinks he understands and recognizes his own privilege, and he certainly understands the right terminology to use.
(d) He does not like to engage on this topic.

5. Which object did white supremacist demonstrators in Virginia use in 2017 during rally there?
(a) Robeson flags.
(b) Tiki torches.
(c) Bakelite Flashlights.
(d) Swiss army knives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of former First Lady Michelle Obama's memoir, which Rankine references in Part III?

2. What subject did philosopher Charles Mills and sociologist Wulf Hund edit a volume of essays about?

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

4. In which city in Virginia did a white supremacist rally take place in 2017?

5. What does Rankine write that she would have preferred from the woman who tried to change the subject from racism at the dinner party instead of "false civility"?

(see the answer key)

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