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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. 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 governments.
(b) Our space program.
(c) Our workplaces.
(d) Our homes.

2. With whom was Oluo having dinner when she had to excuse herself to launch a program on her phone?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her date.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her sister.

3. In the context of social justice, which term means "an advantage or set of advantages you have that others do not" (53)?
(a) Privilege.
(b) Tone policing.
(c) Appropriation.
(d) Intersectionality.

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

5. In what state were Oluo and her younger brother born?
(a) Texas.
(b) California.
(c) Oklahoma.
(d) New Jersey.

Short Answer Questions

1. A study by the CPE found that "blacks were almost" how many "times more likely to be subject to force from police" (73) than were their white counterparts?

2. What element does Oluo name as the only tool people of color often have when they are faced with police brutality?

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

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

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