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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Rankine bolster the security at her own home?
(a) Her children had been harassed at school.
(b) Her neighbor's house had been broken into recently.
(c) She had received a flurry of hate mail.
(d) Some of her partners at the university had been targeted for work similar to hers.

2. How does the writer Rachel Kaadzi Ghanash describe the online community of violent white supremacists like the 2015 Charleston church shooter?
(a) They are white, young, heavily armed, and usually extremely socially awkward.
(b) They are mixed-race, somewhat educated, older, and heavily armed.
(c) They are young, heavily armed, and usually employed in well-paid jobs.
(d) They are highly educated, middle-aged, white, and heavily armed.

3. Who wrote the book The Color of Law?
(a) Jane Zellen.
(b) Maya Angelou.
(c) Ruby Sales.
(d) Richard Rothstein.

4. What does Rankine say of her own white husband's attitude towards white privilege?
(a) He teaches a class about white privilege similar to the one Rankine teaches.
(b) He thinks he understands and recognizes his own privilege, and he certainly understands the right terminology to use.
(c) He has only recently begun to talk about white privilege.
(d) He does not like to engage on this topic.

5. What does Notes on the State of Virginia conclude that the Black race could not produce?
(a) A scientist.
(b) A dancer.
(c) A musician.
(d) A poet.

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

7. Which of the following does Rankine write that the "root of chastise" is?
(a) To feed.
(b) To chase.
(c) To make pure.
(d) To garden.

8. What was the 2017 white supremacist rally in Virginia supposedly organized to respond to?
(a) Affirmative action.
(b) A new book by a prominent Black legal scholar.
(c) Calls to remove the Confederate statue in Charlottesville.
(d) The election of the first Black president.

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

10. 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.

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

12. 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 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.
(c) She wanted to find out what her supervisor really thought of her.
(d) She wondered if her daughter would get into college.

13. Which term, coined by Orlando Patterson, does Frank Wilderson III borrow, according to Rankine?
(a) Social death.
(b) Social landing.
(c) Social capital.
(d) Social invisibility.

14. What song did Rankine and one of her white male co-travelers in Part I both love?
(a) Nightshift.
(b) The Devil Went Down to Georgia.
(c) Born in the U.S.A.
(d) Proud Mary.

15. Which city in Michigan suffered from lead-tainted water?
(a) Flint.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Dearborne.
(d) Missoula.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which Supreme Court Justice does Rankine take issue with for his assertion that he had no connections at Yale?

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

4. What is the title of the class Rankine teaches on race at her university?

5. At the very end of Part II, what statement does Rankine recall a white woman saying to her several weeks earlier?

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