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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. How did Oluo always respond when people asked her about the success of So You Want to Talk About Race soon after the book's publication?
(a) She said that only time would tell.
(b) She said she did not know.
(c) She said she was waiting to hear from her literary agent.
(d) She said it was a secret.

2. 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 park.
(c) A classroom.
(d) A coffee shop.

3. Oluo states that it is futile to keep running from racism, since it has infiltrated all but which one of the following locations?
(a) Our workplaces.
(b) Our space program.
(c) Our governments.
(d) Our homes.

4. In the preface, Oluo thanks readers for alerting her to the fact that the first edition of the book used outdated and inconsistent language in discussion of which cultures?
(a) Asian cultures.
(b) Indigenous cultures.
(c) East Indian cultures.
(d) Latinx cultures.

5. Oluo asserts that racism was used to justify the genocide of which people?
(a) Jewish people.
(b) Indigenous people.
(c) People of color.
(d) Nomadic people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What platform did Oluo use to post a message online just before the police officer approached her window in 2015?

2. With whom was Oluo having dinner when she had to excuse herself to launch a program on her phone?

3. 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?

4. The CPE lists all but which of the following weapons in its definition of the use of force from police?

5. Oluo states that racism was used to justify the enslavement of which people?

(see the answer key)

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