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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of loan does Oluo name as a type provided to black people more often than white people?
(a) A title loan.
(b) A high-interest loan.
(c) A home loan.
(d) A reverse mortgage.

2. What platform did Oluo use to post a message online just before the police officer approached her window in 2015?
(a) Facebook.
(b) Twitter.
(c) TikTok.
(d) YouTube.

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) The police.
(b) The public school system.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Banks.

4. What determination does Oluo make in the preface about the success of the book So You Want to Talk About Race?
(a) She does not know.
(b) She thinks it was partially successful.
(c) She thinks it was unsuccessful.
(d) She thinks it was successful.

5. Describing her first conversation with her mother about racism, Oluo states that it had opened up a new way of taking what action in relation to her mother?
(a) Seeing.
(b) Believing.
(c) Hearing.
(d) Understanding.

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 In the preface, Oluo thanks readers for alerting her to the fact that the first edition of the book used outdated and inconsistent language in discussion of which cultures?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

7. Oluo states that there are how many official definitions of racism?
(a) 5.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

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

9. What platform did Oluo use to denounce a particular city's choice to host a concert by a particular hip-hop artist?
(a) Twitter.
(b) Instagram.
(c) Facebook.
(d) YouTube.

10. What is NOT an element Oluo detected within people's questions about how the book was faring just after its publication?
(a) Whether the book had made bestseller lists.
(b) How many copies of the book had been sold.
(c) Whether audiences were filling book tour events.
(d) How many millions of dollars the book had produced.

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

12. 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.

13. 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 coffee shop.
(d) A classroom.

14. Charles Mudude was an editor at which Seattle newspaper?
(a) The Stranger.
(b) The Seattle Times.
(c) Seattle Weekly.
(d) The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

15. What is NOT a trait of her own writing that Oluo mentions as something she gave her readers that many other writers did not offer?
(a) Authenticity.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Utility.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oluo asserts that "our class system is" (21) all but which of the following?

2. How does Oluo describe the identities of the men who approached Oluo's picnicking group in the Seattle park?

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

4. Over how many hours did Oluo engage with her coworker online the evening of the described altercation?

5. In Chapter 2: What is Racism?, Oluo discusses a coworker who posted a meme suggesting that recipients of welfare be forced to take what action before receiving benefits?

(see the answer keys)

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