Narration: Recounting Events

Comprehension Quiz for “Right Place, Wrong Face”

Read “Right Place, Wrong Face” and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

Question 12.1

1. What point does the title of the essay make?

White didn’t get an acting job he auditioned for because he didn’t look right for the part.

He dresses a lot like gangster rappers, and that put him in danger of being attacked by other gang members.

Instead of being arrested because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, as the police officer explains at the end, he was arrested because he was black.

Something about his facial expressions makes people mistake him for a criminal.

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Question 12.2

2. How is White like the character he plays in the Broadway musical Ragtime?

Despite being honest, hardworking, gentlemanly, polite, and talented, he was still victimized.

Like the character, he’s a great piano player in real life.

Like the character, he also served jail time in his youth, and no one would ever let him forget it.

Like the character, he was wrongfully arrested.

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Question 12.3

3. Why did he miss his evening performance?

He was in a rush to get to the bank before it closed.

He felt discouraged about his acting career and decided not to go.

He was helping two new guys unload their U-Haul and move into the apartment underneath his.

The police officers imprisoned him for five hours.

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Question 12.4

4. According to White, why was he not released after the criminals were identified?

He resisted arrest, which he later found out was a bad idea.

The police officers didn’t know who he was and needed time to look up his records.

The police officers were deliberately persecuting him because he was black.

The police found traces of drugs in his pockets.

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Question 12.5

5. How did this event change White?

He decided to work even harder to become a better actor.

He gave up his acting career because he realized he didn’t have the right face.

He realized that if you are black, it doesn’t matter how polite, talented, hardworking, honest, and well dressed you are: you will still be victimized by racism.

He realized that when an officer arrests you, you should never resist and should remain calm and cooperative because they will release you sooner.

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