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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: How Can I Talk About Affirmative Action? - Chapter 10: What is Cultural Appropriation?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Oluo characterize the number of African restaurant offerings in the Pacific Northwest?
(a) Scant.
(b) Average.
(c) Above average.
(d) Inundated.

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

3. How many of Oluo's brothers did she have with her in the car when she got pulled over for speeding in 2015?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

4. In Chapter 8: What is the School-to-Prison Pipeline?, Oluo discusses being contacted by Sagan's mother, who has which first name?
(a) Nanette.
(b) Natalie.
(c) Nancy.
(d) Natasha.

5. Oluo states that until what level of her school career, she was always the only black student in her class?
(a) College.
(b) Junior high.
(c) Middle school.
(d) High school.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oluo states that what length of time will likely pass before a white person is able to say the 'n word' without hurting black people by doing so?

2. Oluo urges the reader in Chapter 8: What is the School-to-Prison Pipeline to "challenge the legitimacy" of which "white-centered" (104) institution?

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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