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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which white documentary maker does Rankine study with her class?
(a) Jefferson Turfley.
(b) Michael Moore.
(c) Jan Ringlow.
(d) Whitney Dow.

2. In which city in Virginia did a white supremacist rally take place in 2017?
(a) Charlottesville.
(b) Front Royal.
(c) Arlington.
(d) Dubray.

3. At the very end of Part II, what statement does Rankine recall a white woman saying to her several weeks earlier?
(a) America is a post-racist society after electing a Black president.
(b) Antiracist work makes no difference.
(c) Blacks have to get up and fight for themselves.
(d) Voter suppression laws make no difference.

4. Who said, "I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife?"
(a) Andrew Jackson.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Jefferson Davis.
(d) William Harrison.

5. What year was the document Notes on the State of Virginia written in?
(a) 1805.
(b) 1781.
(c) 1790.
(d) 1904.

6. What James Baldwin poem does Rankine excerpt in Part I?
(a) The White Man's Burden.
(b) The White Man's Guilt.
(c) Freedom From the Oppressor.
(d) Brutality.

7. What did Rankine identify as her "most corrupt thought of the year" in Part II?
(a) She wondered if she had been passed over for a promotion because she is a Black woman.
(b) She wanted to find out what her supervisor really thought of her.
(c) She wondered if her daughter would get into college.
(d) She hesitated to go to her daughter's parent-teacher conference because she did not want the teacher's potential anti-Black bias to be conferred onto her daughter.

8. What source does Rankine recommend for an extended argument for integration?
(a) Plato's The Cave.
(b) Toni Morrison's Beloved.
(c) Alex Haley's Roots.
(d) Elizabeth Anderson's The Imperative of Integration.

9. Where does Rankine begin to undertake conversation with white men who are strangers?
(a) On subways.
(b) At her university.
(c) In restaurants.
(d) In airports and on airplanes.

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

11. How old was Rankine when she met her husband?
(a) 25.
(b) 45.
(c) 35.
(d) 30.

12. What does Rankine notice in Part I about her "banter" with strangers?
(a) She finds that she always ends up talking with other people working in academia.
(b) She ends up speaking with younger people constantly.
(c) She never ends up talking with Asian people.
(d) She does not often fall into conversation with white men.

13. Who did Malcolm X say was the most disrespected, unprotected, and neglected person in America?
(a) The Asian woman.
(b) The Black woman.
(c) The white woman.
(d) The Black man.

14. In her poem in Part I, what does Rankine say is in her voice when she says she feels herself slowing down?
(a) Humor.
(b) Fear.
(c) Resignation.
(d) Marginalization.

15. What do the people in the workshop say about the scenario comparing a Black person to a monkey?
(a) It was something that should be taken up in court.
(b) It was above their pay grade.
(c) It was a fireable offense.
(d) It was supposed to be a joke.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which object did white supremacist demonstrators in Virginia use in 2017 during rally there?

2. What was the name of the 2017 Virginia rally of white supremacists?

3. Who is Rankine's favorite musical group?

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

5. What does the document Notes on the State of Virginia say that Blacks are much inferior to whites in?

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