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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: What if I Talk About Race Wrong? - Chapter 6: Is Police Brutality Really About Race?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Oluo when she and her mother had their first serious discussion about race?
(a) 41.
(b) 22.
(c) 34.
(d) 14.

2. Oluo states that her mother's "optimism and starry-eyed love" (39) came from what source?
(a) Her gender.
(b) Her whiteness.
(c) Her maternal instinct.
(d) Her yoga practice.

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

4. How many rules does Oluo name when she provides a litmus test for whether an issue is about race or not?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 9.
(d) 7.

5. Which sporting event does Oluo use as a metaphor for the racism she and her brother encountered in their youth?
(a) Triathlon.
(b) Shot-put.
(c) Hurdles.
(d) Javelin.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Oluo in Chapter 1: Is it Really About Racism?, the system of racism has been intertwined with what system since the beginning of the United States of America?

2. What platform did Oluo use to denounce a particular city's choice to host a concert by a particular hip-hop artist?

3. What is NOT a quality Oluo attributes to the main people racism was created to benefit?

4. 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)?

5. How does Oluo describe the identities of the men who approached Oluo's picnicking group in the Seattle park?

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