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

2. "The beliefs that sit in the back of your brain and inform your actions without your implicit knowledge is called what?
(a) Implicit deficit.
(b) Implicit bias.
(c) Implicit ideology.
(d) Implicit tendency.

3. In what month of 2015 was Oluo pulled over by the police for speeding?
(a) December.
(b) September.
(c) July.
(d) Feburary.

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

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

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. How many rules does Oluo name when she provides a litmus test for whether an issue is about race or not?

3. When Oluo names her many advantages, she points out that her grade school education had been what?

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

5. 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)?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. How many rules does Oluo outline for how to determine if a particular issue is really about race and what are they?

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

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

5. About what topic did Oluo send a Tweet that later required her to launch a troll-blocking program on her phone?

6. In what way does Oluo depict the theme of collectivism within the introduction to her book So You Want to Talk About Race?

7. Name three statistics Oluo uses to highlight the problem of police brutality against black people.

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

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

10. What was Ijeoma Oluo's main goal for the text of So You Want to Talk About Race?

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