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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. Black people have a 3.5-4 times higher probability of having what fate befall them at the hands of police than their white counterparts?
(a) Being beaten.
(b) Being arrested.
(c) Being wounded.
(d) Being fatally shot.

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

3. Oluo asserts that "our class system is" (21) all but which of the following?
(a) Mercurial.
(b) Harmful.
(c) Oppressive.
(d) Violent.

4. Oluo became angry when she discovered that a particular hip-hop artist had a concert booked in which Washington city?
(a) Tacoma.
(b) Vancouver.
(c) Seattle.
(d) Spokane.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Oluo states that if she had a male child, he would have what projected chance of ending up in jail, according to recent estimates?

3. What metaphorical element does Oluo use within the Introduction to characterize racism?

4. Oluo states that racism was used to justify the enslavement of which people?

5. In what grade was Sagan when he was expelled from school?

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