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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which BBC broadcaster compared the mixed-race royal baby to an ape?
(a) Will Henderson.
(b) Charlie Roads.
(c) Marie Mayhem.
(d) Danny Baker.

2. What event did Rankine recall having heard about occuring on her college campus the year before she attended as a freshman?
(a) A mass shooting.
(b) A lynching.
(c) A police-involved killing.
(d) A cross burning.

3. What question does Rankine ask about white being being able to speak to their own whiteness in Part I?
(a) If white people do not read history, how can they speak to their whiteness?
(b) If white people are all tired of talking about police brutality, how can they speak to their whiteness?
(c) If white people can't see their own whiteness, how can they speak to it?
(d) If white people are all highly paid, why should they be moved to speak to their whiteness?

4. What did Rankine and her husband spend much of their time doing for the past several decades?
(a) Traveling to other countries to try to help set up health care centers for people of color.
(b) Making art addressing the racist treatment of American citizens.
(c) Raising foster children.
(d) Teaching classes at small community colleges about racism.

5. Which poet described love partially as "a close reading"?
(a) Fabrize Fabricant.
(b) Erica Hunt.
(c) Emily Dickinson.
(d) Adrienne Richardson.

6. What album of Beyonce's does Rankine discuss in Part II?
(a) All the Single Ladies.
(b) Forever.
(c) Lemonade.
(d) Beach.

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

8. 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) William Harrison.
(b) Andrew Jackson.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Jefferson Davis.

9. Which Florida governor used a racially charged expression, according to Rankine, when running in 2018 against a Black opponent?
(a) Rick Scott.
(b) Evan Stone.
(c) Charlie Baker.
(d) Ron DeSantis.

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

11. What illness did Rankine suffer and recover from?
(a) A heart attack.
(b) Pancreatic cancer.
(c) Breast cancer.
(d) Diabetes.

12. What is the title of the class Rankine teaches on race at her university?
(a) The History of Whiteness in America.
(b) Racism in America.
(c) Constructions of Whiteness.
(d) The Tulsa Massacre and American History.

13. What does Rankine identify as an "idle thought" when discussing her daughter's school and the white parents there?
(a) The idea of playing the race card.
(b) The idea of affirmative action.
(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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the writer Rachel Kaadzi Ghanash describe the online community of violent white supremacists like the 2015 Charleston church shooter?

2. Where does Rankine begin to undertake conversation with white men who are strangers?

3. Who is Rankine's favorite musical group?

4. How old was Rankine when she met her husband?

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

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