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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 platform did Oluo use to post a message online just before the police officer approached her window in 2015?
(a) TikTok.
(b) Twitter.
(c) Facebook.
(d) YouTube.

2. How does Oluo describe her mother's identity?
(a) Trans.
(b) Queer.
(c) White.
(d) Latinx.

3. In Chapter 1: Is it Really About Race?, Oluo portrays a conversation with a friend who claims that "The problem in American society is not race, it's" (18) what?
(a) Gender.
(b) Class.
(c) Sex.
(d) Violence.

4. Oluo notes in the preface that she hopes the reader uses the book to "deconstruct" (12) what?
(a) Patriarchy.
(b) White supremacy.
(c) The school-to-prison pipeline.
(d) The silence surrounding race.

5. 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) 0.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The final paragraph of the Introduction is written from which narrative perspective?

3. On what platform did Oluo find the social media group that she eventually joined in the Seattle area?

4. How old was Oluo when she joined a social media group for Seattleite people of color?

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

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