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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface - Chapter 2: What is Racism?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event is statistically more likely to happen to a black high school student than a white student, according to Oluo?
(a) Suspension.
(b) Detention.
(c) Graduation.
(d) Expulsion.

2. In Chapter 1: Is it Really About Race?, Oluo portrays a conversation with a friend who claims that "The problem in American society is not race, it's" (18) what?
(a) Violence.
(b) Gender.
(c) Sex.
(d) Class.

3. What term does Oluo use when she describes the America many people were misled to believe was in existence?
(a) Conglomeration.
(b) Mosaic.
(c) Melting-pot.
(d) Community.

4. Oluo notes in the preface that she hopes the reader uses the book to "deconstruct" (12) what?
(a) The school-to-prison pipeline.
(b) Patriarchy.
(c) The silence surrounding race.
(d) White supremacy.

5. What is NOT a quality Oluo attributes to the main people racism was created to benefit?
(a) Educated.
(b) Rich.
(c) Male.
(d) White.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oluo states that there are how many official definitions of racism?

2. In the preface, Oluo thanks readers for alerting her to the fact that the first edition of the book used outdated and inconsistent language in discussion of which cultures?

3. What is NOT an element Oluo detected within people's questions about how the book was faring just after its publication?

4. What determination does Oluo make in the preface about the success of the book So You Want to Talk About Race?

5. What object does Oluo use in a metaphor depicting the one weapon she says cannot be used "to tear down all the walls" (21) of oppression at once?

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