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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. Which experiment results were used in the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case to show the adverse effect of racism on Black children?
(a) The singer tests.
(b) The marshmallow tests.
(c) The doll tests.
(d) The Lucifer tests.

2. Which fashion brand does Rankine write cultivated an aura of the white, wealthy country-club set throughout the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s?
(a) Ralph Lauren.
(b) Mode.
(c) Tommy Hilfiger.
(d) Ashbrown.

3. Whose cells did researchers use for genetic experiments without her consent?
(a) Harriet Tubman.
(b) Henrietta Lacks.
(c) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(d) Rosa Parks.

4. Which Black female candidate for governor in 2018 does Rankine identify as having endured racist attacks during her campaign?
(a) Stacey Abrams.
(b) Ramona Jones.
(c) Val Demmings.
(d) Roberta Johnson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the white female judge say in Part IV about her son that shocks Rankine?

2. How did khaki pants and the color khaki begin to become fashionable in America in the 1950s?

3. 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?

4. What ubiquitous coffee shop chain experienced a scandal for the racial bias an employee exhibited towards customers there in 2018?

5. What is the title of Ellen D. Wu's widely cited history on Asian Americans?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did former President Lyndon Johnson tell journalist Bill Moyers about white and Black relations?

2. Why do you think Rankine includes the photo of the white man holding a sign saying "I am not ashamed/afraid to be white" on page 140?

3. What makes Rankine so angry at the play Fairview?

4. In the very beginning of Part III, what does Rankine write that she is attempting to understand?

5. What happens to the young child of a friend of Rankine's when he colors Goldilocks's skin brown in his class?

6. What does the term "people of color" mean to Rankine?

7. What does Rankine mean when she asks the question, "Whose boys get to be boys?" (264).

8. What does Rankine wonder about the woman in Part IV who has a medical emergency on the plane?

9. In Part IV, what does a white man say to a white woman - ostensibly his partner - when she arrives at the airport gate late?

10. How does Rankine eventually come to better understand her friend's actions at the play Fairview?

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