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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: What if I Talk About Race Wrong? - Chapter 6: Is Police Brutality Really About Race?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Oluo in Chapter 1: Is it Really About Racism?, the system of racism has been intertwined with what system since the beginning of the United States of America?
(a) The prison system.
(b) The tax system.
(c) The health care system.
(d) The economic system.

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

3. Oluo states that people of color "want white people to join them in demanding their right to be able to trust the" what "like white people do" (80)?
(a) Banks.
(b) Doctors.
(c) The public school system.
(d) The police.

4. What is NOT an adjective Oluo uses in the Introduction to describe the process of writing So You Want to Talk About Race?
(a) Grueling.
(b) Eye-opening.
(c) Painful.
(d) Heart-wrenching.

5. To what sort of location did Oluo go with a friend the day after her online altercation with a coworker?
(a) A bookstore.
(b) A coffee shop.
(c) A park.
(d) A classroom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oluo notes in the preface that she hopes the reader uses the book to "deconstruct" (12) what?

2. In the context of social justice, which term means "an advantage or set of advantages you have that others do not" (53)?

3. Black people have a 3.5-4 times higher probability of having what fate befall them at the hands of police than their white counterparts?

4. Oluo states that she makes her living by talking about what topic?

5. Ijeoma Oluo states in the preface of So You Want to Talk About Racism that she is writing the preface how many years after the first edition of the book was published?

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