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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 a trait of her own writing that Oluo mentions as something she gave her readers that many other writers did not offer?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Authenticity.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Utility.

2. Oluo states that from the beginning, she hoped that the book So You Want to Talk About Race would create real what?
(a) Anger.
(b) Emotions.
(c) Change.
(d) Understanding.

3. In the context of social justice, which term means "an advantage or set of advantages you have that others do not" (53)?
(a) Intersectionality.
(b) Appropriation.
(c) Tone policing.
(d) Privilege.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many lines of traffic did the policeman cross in order to pull Oluo over in 2015?

2. How old was Oluo when she and her mother had their first serious discussion about race?

3. Oluo states that there are how many official definitions of racism?

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

5. How many rules does Oluo name when she provides a litmus test for whether an issue is about race or not?

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