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

2. What did Rankine identify as her "most corrupt thought of the year" in Part II?
(a) She wanted to find out what her supervisor really thought of her.
(b) She wondered if she had been passed over for a promotion because she is a Black woman.
(c) 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.
(d) She wondered if her daughter would get into college.

3. Why did one white friend of Rankine's tell her she had to defend her to her other white friends often?
(a) Because the white friends did not understand Rankine's academic work.
(b) Because the white friends thought Rankine was too serious.
(c) Because the white friends thought Rankine did not like them.
(d) Because the white friends thought Rankine was a radical.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Saturday Night Live actress tweeted about harassment comparing her to an ape?

2. Which columnist and fiction writer does Rankine include a tweet from about similar racist treatment in airports in Part I?

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

4. What does Rankine repeatedly say she wants for her daughter?

5. What does Rankine say American voter registration laws can function as in some states?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one problem Rankine has with the scenario her white friend on a diversity training tells her about regarding a classroom situation?

2. Who popularized the phrase "white privilege" and when did it begin being used more often?

3. What is the origin of this book's title?

4. What are Shirley Cards?

5. Why does Rankine think it might be best for just her white husband to attend her daughter's parent-teacher conference?

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

7. What assertion that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kanavagh made in his senate confirmation hearing does Rankine take issue with in Part I?

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

9. What reason does one white man offer to Rankine as an explanation as to why his son did not get accepted through early decision to Yale University?

10. What is the significance of the "Unite the Right" rally that took place in Charlottesville Virginia in 2017, according to Rankine?

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