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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 209 - 266).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which fashion brand does Rankine write cultivated an aura of the white, wealthy country-club set throughout the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s?
(a) Ashbrown.
(b) Mode.
(c) Ralph Lauren.
(d) Tommy Hilfiger.

2. What book of Wendy Travino's does Rankine's friend ask if she has read in Part IV?
(a) Finding Their Power: Latin Americans in the Modern Age.
(b) The New Latinos.
(c) Si Se Puede: A Biography.
(d) Brazilian Is Not a Race.

3. What phrase does Rankine say Barack Obama's 2008 campaign slogan had its roots in?
(a) A Louis Armstrong song.
(b) A Billie Holiday song.
(c) The United Farm Workers of America's phrase, Si Se Puede.
(d) Nike's advertising slogan.

4. What did the CDC report about breast cancer disparities between white and Black people?
(a) Black women get breast cancer at higher rates than white women do.
(b) Black women have less access to treatments for breast cancer than white women do.
(c) Black and white women get breast cancer at about the same rate, but Black women die at higher rates from breast cancer than white women do.
(d) Black women see doctors at lower rates than white women do.

5. What does Rankine say she wants her daughter to be able to "negotiate the world" with?
(a) Optimism.
(b) Emphatic imagination.
(c) Justice.
(d) Faith in the police.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which comedian does Rankine call out in Part IV for revealing parts of his racial identity but not revealing other parts of his racial identity?

2. Who is Rankine's favorite musical group?

3. What did Rankine identify as her "most corrupt thought of the year" in Part II?

4. What does Rankine believe is foundational to all our problems in America?

5. What does the white female judge say in Part IV about her son that shocks Rankine?

(see the answer key)

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