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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. What is NOT an element Oluo's friend mentions in the list of ways he would help the lower classes?
(a) Cutting rates of food insecurity.
(b) Raising the minimum wage.
(c) Encouraging job training.
(d) Strengthening unions.

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

3. When Oluo names her many advantages, she points out that her grade school education had been what?
(a) Uninterrupted by war.
(b) Of high quality.
(c) Free.
(d) Safe.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does Oluo use when she describes the America many people were misled to believe was in existence?

2. With whom was Oluo having dinner when she had to excuse herself to launch a program on her phone?

3. What platform did Oluo use to post a message online just before the police officer approached her window in 2015?

4. 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?

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

(see the answer key)

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