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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 adjective does Oluo use in the final sentence of the Introduction when she discusses being "a part of this conversation" (17)?
(a) Tentative.
(b) Honored.
(c) Surprised.
(d) Awed.

2. 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) 0.
(d) 1.

3. What object does Oluo use in a metaphor depicting the one weapon she says cannot be used "to tear down all the walls" (21) of oppression at once?
(a) A hammer.
(b) An axe.
(c) A baseball bat.
(d) A tire iron.

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

5. 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) Fear.
(b) Ennui.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Jealousy.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is NOT an element Oluo's friend mentions in the list of ways he would help the lower classes?

3. Oluo describes the trajectory of her career in what field?

4. What kind of loan does Oluo name as a type provided to black people more often than white people?

5. "The beliefs that sit in the back of your brain and inform your actions without your implicit knowledge is called what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What positive aspects of her mother's views about race does Oluo point out and why?

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

5. How does Oluo define the idea of intersectionality?

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

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

8. 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?

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

10. To what mistakes does Oluo admit when she discusses the contents of the book's first edition?

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