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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

3. Oluo insists at the end of Chapter 3: What If I Talk About Race Wrong? that it is crucial that in the fight for social justice, we disregard our what?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Ennui.
(c) Fear.
(d) Hatred.

4. When Oluo names her many advantages, she points out that her grade school education had been what?
(a) Uninterrupted by war.
(b) Free.
(c) Of high quality.
(d) Safe.

5. What location does Oluo name as "a very lonely place" for her for a "very long time" (49)?
(a) Seattle.
(b) Salt Lake City.
(c) Spokane.
(d) Texas.

6. 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) Painful.
(c) Eye-opening.
(d) Heart-wrenching.

7. What is NOT an element Oluo's friend mentions in the list of ways he would help the lower classes?
(a) Encouraging job training.
(b) Strengthening unions.
(c) Raising the minimum wage.
(d) Cutting rates of food insecurity.

8. Statisticians predict that out of every three black men born in the current era, how many will be incarcerated by the time they reach adulthood?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 0.

9. Oluo states that her mother's "optimism and starry-eyed love" (39) came from what source?
(a) Her maternal instinct.
(b) Her yoga practice.
(c) Her gender.
(d) Her whiteness.

10. Which sporting event does Oluo use as a metaphor for the racism she and her brother encountered in their youth?
(a) Shot-put.
(b) Hurdles.
(c) Javelin.
(d) Triathlon.

11. Oluo states that racism was used to justify the enslavement of which people?
(a) Indigenous people.
(b) Nomadic people.
(c) Asian people.
(d) Black people.

12. Which hip-hop artist's booking of a concert near Oluo's place of residence made her angry?
(a) DJ Jazzy Jeff.
(b) R Kelly.
(c) Jay-Z.
(d) Lil Wayne.

13. Oluo asserts that "our class system is" (21) all but which of the following?
(a) Oppressive.
(b) Violent.
(c) Mercurial.
(d) Harmful.

14. What does Oluo name as the indicator she knew she would use to measure the success of her book So You Want to Talk About Race?
(a) Utility.
(b) Audience numbers at book events.
(c) Weeks on a bestseller list.
(d) Sales.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Oluo describe her mother's identity?

2. Oluo asserts that racism was used to justify the genocide of which people?

3. Which aspect of Oluo's first serious conversation about race with her mother made her happy they had talked?

4. Oluo states that until what level of her school career, she was always the only black student in her class?

5. Oluo provides a statistic stating that black drivers are what percentage more likely to get stopped by the police than white drivers?

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