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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the document Notes on the State of Virginia say that Blacks are much inferior to whites in?
2. What does Notes on the State of Virginia conclude that the Black race could not produce?
3. What phrase does Rankine's seatmate on a flight in Part I say that Rankine says pulls an emergency brake in her brain?
4. Why did Rankine bolster the security at her own home?
5. From what event does Rankine include a photograph of men giving a Nazi salute in front of a burning swastika in Part II?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who popularized the phrase "white privilege" and when did it begin being used more often?
2. 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?
3. What are Shirley Cards?
4. What assertion that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kanavagh made in his senate confirmation hearing does Rankine take issue with in Part I?
5. Why does Rankine undertake a series of casual conversations with white male travelers on airplanes?
6. In Part II, why does a white friend of Rankine's tell her she has to defend Rankine to her own white friends?
7. What statement of Hillary Clinton's does Rankine recall and quote on page 133, calling it appalling but not un-American?
8. What historical document from the 1700s does Rankine include extensive sections of in Part II?
9. What is the tension for Rankine as she expresses it in her poem in Part I in the call to change?
10. What is a major reason Rankine decides to go to marriage counseling with her husband?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why does Rankine's white friend's behavior at the play "Fairview" upset her so much? How does the white friend's written response change Rankine's view on the events of that night? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 2
At the end of the book, Rankine reveals that she asked a friend to read a draft of the book and the friend told her that the book did not lay out any real "strategy" (334). Do you agree with this critique? Why or why not? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 3
How does Rankine interpret the fact that Barack Obama was elected to the U.S. presidency twice in terms of what this fact reveals about racism in America? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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