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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Violence.
(b) Sex.
(c) Class.
(d) Gender.

2. 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) Utility.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Intelligence.

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

4. 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?
(a) 2.
(b) 10.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does Oluo use when she describes the America many people were misled to believe was in existence?

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

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

4. Oluo states that it is futile to keep running from racism, since it has infiltrated all but which one of the following locations?

5. How old was Oluo when she and her mother had their first serious discussion about race?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 1: Is It Really About Race?, Oluo portrays a conversation during which her friend makes what claim about class?

2. What significant event in Oluo's life did not happen until she was 34 years old?

3. How does Oluo portray her mother's views about race as negative?

4. Discuss the significance of an instance when Oluo uses a literary device to depict racism.

5. What were the contents of the meme sent by Oluo's coworker that upset her and sparked an online altercation?

6. Why was it particularly important for Oluo to quickly run a program on her phone when she saw trolls inflicting a barrage of negative comments on her on Twitter?

7. What is the ultimate goal in relation to solving the police brutality problem, according to Oluo?

8. What are the two different definitions of racism, according to Oluo?

9. What action did Oluo take in her early thirties that put an end to the loneliness she had been experiencing for decades in the greater Seattle area?

10. Which of the two definitions of racism does Oluo subscribe to for the purposes of the book and why?

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