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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the audience instructed to do at the end of the play in Part III?
(a) They were asked to clap very loudly.
(b) They were asked to get a glass of water and take it outside.
(c) They were asked to pull the fire alarms in the theater.
(d) White audience members were invited onto the stage and Black audience members were asked to stay in their seats.

2. What does one white man tell Rankine he believes is his greatest privilege in his life in Part III?
(a) His education.
(b) His weight.
(c) His accent.
(d) His height.

3. What does Rankine refer to when she uses the term "R and R" in Part III?
(a) Rest and Relaxation.
(b) Reconstruction and Remorse.
(c) Reparations and Reconstruction.
(d) Ruminations and Reparations.

4. Which U.S. senator once said, "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be in the front row"?
(a) Randall Stone.
(b) Jessie Johnson.
(c) Layton Hughes.
(d) Cindy Hyde-Smith.

5. What rhetorical question does Rankine ask following the 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearings about the differences in how Americans treat young Black men and young white men?
(a) How wrong does someone have to be before things change?
(b) Whose boys get to be boys?
(c) What is an alternative fact?
(d) Do statistics mean nothing any longer?

6. Which Supreme Court justice's confirmation hearings in 2018 included testimony of his alleged abuse towards a woman?
(a) Clarence Thomas.
(b) Michael Hawley.
(c) Brett Kavanaugh.
(d) Neil Gorsuch.

7. What did a young boy tell his classmate, who was the child of a friend of Rankine's, he had done by giving Goldilocks dark skin in a picture he colored?
(a) Improved her.
(b) Made her less intelligent.
(c) Ruined her.
(d) Made her a liar.

8. What is one major difference Rankine understands between her life and that of her dear white friend in Part III, even though they share many similarities?
(a) Rankine did not have health insurance, and her friend did.
(b) Rankine did not have any inherited wealth.
(c) Rankine did not have children, and her friend did.
(d) Rankine did not have anyone else help her pay for college.

9. Which former U.S. President wrote parts of Notes on the State of Virginia?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) John Adams.
(c) Andrew Jackson.
(d) George Washington.

10. In which city does Rankine's plane land in Part IV in which a woman has to be taken off the plane by EMTs?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Phoenix.
(d) New York.

11. What was one argument the NYPD Union lawyers put forth in the death of Eric Garner at police hands, according to Rankine?
(a) Garner forced police to use lethal force against him.
(b) Garner would have died anyway because he was obese.
(c) Garner would have been convicted by a jury for his crimes.
(d) Police would not have killed Garner if he had been standing on the corner with other friends of his.

12. What does Rankine's white friend tell her about why she refused to follow the play's instructions at the end of the play in Part III?
(a) She had to take a phone call instead.
(b) She felt sick and could not stand up.
(c) She did not want to.
(d) She had never been to a play like that before and she thought the instructions were a joke.

13. What does Rankine question how far away she can get from by using the language of inquiry in Part IV?
(a) Blame.
(b) Racism.
(c) Confrontation.
(d) Peace.

14. Where does Rankine say the phrase "people of color" originally came from?
(a) The court case Brown v. The Board of Education.
(b) The court case Loving v. Virginia.
(c) The great migration.
(d) Women of color.

15. Which comedian does Rankine call out in Part IV for revealing parts of his racial identity but not revealing other parts of his racial identity?
(a) Dave Chapelle.
(b) John Mulaney.
(c) Chris Rock.
(d) Louis C.K.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rankine write that she is trying to understand in the very beginning of Part III?

2. What television series starring Reese Witherspoon does Rankine reference in the text in Part III?

3. What does Rankine's white friend do to try to explain her actions at the play to Rankine after the fact?

4. What disease was at the center of the Tuskegee tragedy?

5. Which senator does Rankine identify as having tried to justify white voters' reluctance to vote for Black candidates in the 2018 midterm elections?

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