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RAQ Questions & Answers

The Exercise
The RAQ has been tested on a dozen different occasions in college classrooms, church-sponsored discussion groups, and workshop settings. Preliminary versions proved very popular, and we have received word that some are still in informal circulation. The current packet incorporates the knowledge and experience gained from this field testing. The RAQ is designed for easy copying and use.

If you purchase the RAQ from the Center, you are entitled to use it in any classroom, workshop, seminar, or discussion group setting where you are present as facilitator. You are entitled to make copies of the quiz questions and the quiz answers and make them available for use by participants during the event you facilitate. The quiz guide is for your personal use as facilitator and may not be duplicated. Participants may keep copies of the questions and answers in order to aid in their learning and retention, however they are not entitled to make new copies or to use the quiz on their own. This license does not give you the right to reprint the quiz as part of a publication or packet of material for sale, or as part of a workbook or set of supplemental readings.

Typically it takes 20 to 30 minutes to answer the questions. The answer booklet takes another 20 minutes to read.

The quiz is intended to encourage dialog, and field testing indicates a period of 90 minutes to 2 hours should be allotted to discuss the answers.

RAQ Questions
The 20 multiple-choice questions of the RAQ touch on United States history and, occasionally, current circumstances. The questions have been selected and written to explore assumptions about race that result from exposure to the typical Eurocentric education in United States high schools and mainstream media.

Rather than exposing these assumptions directly, the questions ask about circumstances and then pose alternative answers, some of which "fit" existing assumptions. Quiz takers who use these assumptions find their answers are often wrong.

Some questions concentrate on significant historical events, such as Columbus discovering the Americas, the Indian Removal program of the 1830s, or the granting of independence by the U.S. to the Phillipines. Other questions focus on lesser matters. In each case, however, the assumptions that are being explored are significant.

It is exploring these assumptions that is the purpose of the quiz.

Typically it takes about 20 minutes for quiz takers to answer all twenty questions.

Sample Question Page (84.5 kB image)

RAQ Answers
The questions provide the interest and challenge of the RAQ, but the answers convey the learning. The answer sheets give the choice for each question with an explanation between 150 to 500 words in length. Lively and engaging text presents supporting facts and documentation. Sources are cited in full following each answer (see the Facilitator's Guide for a complete list of sources), allowing quiz takers to check the answers on their own and locate material for additional reading.

Typically it takes about 20 minutes for quiz takers to read the answers to all twenty questions.

The RAQ packet contains the 8-page answer portion in loose leaf format for easy copying. A bound set of questions is also contained in the RAQ Facilitator's Guide.

Sample Answer Sheet (153 kB image)

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