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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 is the name for the pictures photographers used to use to gauge skin tone?
(a) Paint Cards.
(b) Shirley Cards.
(c) Black Cards.
(d) White Cards.

2. Which columnist and fiction writer does Rankine include a tweet from about similar racist treatment in airports in Part I?
(a) Jesmyn Willow.
(b) Roxane Gay.
(c) Micheline Marrow.
(d) Marjorie Bearing.

3. From what event does Rankine include a photograph of men giving a Nazi salute in front of a burning swastika in Part II?
(a) The 1932 National Socialist Rally in Reinhold.
(b) The 1956 National Socialist Rally in Beindorf.
(c) The National Socialist Movement Rally in Georgia in 2018.
(d) The 1934 National Socialist Rally in Berlin.

4. What does Rankine quote comedian Chris Rock as saying in Part IV?
(a) Black people's humor comes from much tragedy.
(b) White people should walk in his shoes for one day.
(c) No white man in the audience would change places with him, and he is rich.
(d) Black people are survivors and white people could learn from that.

5. How did Scott Arndt react to hearing the phrase "white male privilege" from a colleague?
(a) He said it was fair.
(b) He said he thought it was a sad day for America.
(c) He said it was extremely offensive.
(d) He said it aroused suspicion in him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What source does Rankine recommend for an extended argument for integration?

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

3. 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?

4. Who did Malcolm X say was the most disrespected, unprotected, and neglected person in America?

5. When was the word "privilege" first used, according to Rankine?

(see the answer key)

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