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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 267 - 335).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Saturday Night Live actress tweeted about harassment comparing her to an ape?
(a) Shasheer Zameta.
(b) Melissa Villasenor.
(c) Leslie Jones.
(d) Kristen Wiig.

2. What does Rankine identify as an "idle thought" when discussing her daughter's school and the white parents there?
(a) The idea of affirmative action.
(b) The idea of playing the race card.
(c) The idea that someday America might really be a post-racial society.
(d) The idea of a shared anxiety with white parents regarding the lack of diversity at the school.

3. What does the makeup artist Rankine speaks with in Part V say her Asian clients' preferences are?
(a) To have bigger eyes.
(b) To have curvier bodies.
(c) To have blond hair.
(d) To have lighter skin.

4. Which theorist studied Google searches for the term evolution and found that the results were mostly portrayals of the height of evolution as the body of a white male?
(a) Benjamin Eleanor Adam.
(b) Fabrize Stellin.
(c) Nelson Benson.
(d) Henderson Mellowin.

5. Which social justice activist talked often about the so-called culture of whiteness?
(a) Fabian Fabrize.
(b) Marshall Maverick.
(c) Justin Roamley.
(d) Ruby Sales.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rankine notice in Part I about her "banter" with strangers?

2. What does Rankine think about her friend's response to the incident at the play in Part III?

3. What does one dinner party guest try to turn people's attention to to change the subject from racism that Rankine brings up?

4. Which writer refers to "the afterlife of slavery"?

5. What phrase does Rankine's seatmate on a flight in Part I say that Rankine says pulls an emergency brake in her brain?

(see the answer key)

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