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

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

3. Oluo asserts that racism was used to justify the genocide of which people?
(a) Nomadic people.
(b) Indigenous people.
(c) People of color.
(d) Jewish people.

4. 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?
(a) The tax system.
(b) The prison system.
(c) The economic system.
(d) The health care system.

5. What location does Oluo name as "a very lonely place" for her for a "very long time" (49)?
(a) Spokane.
(b) Texas.
(c) Seattle.
(d) Salt Lake City.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Oluo describes the trajectory of her career in what field?

3. What does Oluo name as the indicator she knew she would use to measure the success of her book So You Want to Talk About Race?

4. In the context of social justice, which term means "an advantage or set of advantages you have that others do not" (53)?

5. What kind of loan does Oluo name as a type provided to black people more often than white people?

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