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

2. Which former U.S. President wrote parts of Notes on the State of Virginia?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) George Washington.
(c) Andrew Jackson.
(d) John Adams.

3. What does Rankine refer to "the gloom" in her poem in Part III?
(a) The way white people often deflect discussions about racism.
(b) The off-white of white.
(c) Toadyism.
(d) The lack of nuance in discussions about racism.

4. What subject did philosopher Charles Mills and sociologist Wulf Hund edit a volume of essays about?
(a) The history of the American Civil War.
(b) The history of slavery in Britain.
(c) Simianization.
(d) Reparations.

5. Who is Rankine's favorite musical group?
(a) Bruce Springsteen.
(b) Marvin Gaye.
(c) Bob Dylan.
(d) The Commodores.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event occurred in Washington D.C. on August 8, 1925?

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

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?

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

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

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