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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event occurred in Washington D.C. on August 8, 1925?
(a) Bombings of several Black churches.
(b) A hurricane that damaged the city.
(c) A deadly clash between anti-racist protestors and white supremacist groups.
(d) A large Ku Klux Klan rally.

2. Who popularized the phrase "white privilege"?
(a) Peggy McIntosh.
(b) Marshall McLuhan.
(c) Farrow Garland.
(d) Evie Barlow.

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

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

5. What did police often ask Rankine and her husband when they were pulled over in New York City and New Jersey?
(a) How much money they had.
(b) How they knew each other.
(c) Whether they had weapons.
(d) Where they were going.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rankine write is "its own form of American optimism" in Part II?

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

3. What does Notes on the State of Virginia conclude about the memories of Blacks and whites?

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?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What painful incident does Rankine recall happening on her college campus the year prior to her attendance there in 1981?

2. What does Rankine worry about regarding the way many people - teachers included - seem to view Black children in general?

3. What historical document from the 1700s does Rankine include extensive sections of in Part II?

4. Why does Rankine undertake a series of casual conversations with white male travelers on airplanes?

5. What is one major event in Rankine's life that she discusses in Part II as forcing her to reassess her life as a whole?

6. What image does Rankine include in the book that a British media personality, Danny Baker, tweeted after the birth of the royal family's mixed-race baby in 2019?

7. What is the tension for Rankine as she expresses it in her poem in Part I in the call to change?

8. What is a major reason Rankine decides to go to marriage counseling with her husband?

9. How does Rankine feel contemplating the overwhelmingly white parents and teachers at her daughter's school?

10. In Part II, why does a white friend of Rankine's tell her she has to defend Rankine to her own white friends?

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