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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15: But What if I Hate Al Sharpton? - Chapter 17: Talking is Great but What Else Can I Do?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Oluo characterizes American society as preferring "its culture cloaked in" (116) what?
(a) Delusion.
(b) Whiteness.
(c) History.
(d) Secrecy.

2. What determination does Oluo make in the preface about the success of the book So You Want to Talk About Race?
(a) She thinks it was unsuccessful.
(b) She thinks it was partially successful.
(c) She does not know.
(d) She thinks it was successful.

3. When Oluo describes the ways in which people have retaliated against her for writing about racism, she states that people "have tried to organize protests" (162) of what?
(a) Her awards banquets.
(b) Her public events.
(c) Her workplace.
(d) Her house.

4. Oluo states that she has received what type of "threatening" (162) correspondence from those upset by her comments about racism?
(a) Letters.
(b) Phone calls.
(c) Emails.
(d) Voicemails.

5. "The beliefs that sit in the back of your brain and inform your actions without your implicit knowledge is called what?
(a) Implicit ideology.
(b) Implicit deficit.
(c) Implicit bias.
(d) Implicit tendency.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oluo states that from the beginning, she hoped that the book So You Want to Talk About Race would create real what?

2. What habit did Oluo develop as a result of white people telling her that her hair is "poufy" (128)?

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

4. One of the actions Oluo suggests in Chapter 17: Talking is Great, but What Else Can I Do? involves boycotting a number of what kind of businesses?

5. Oluo states that if a person lives above the poverty line in what kind of a society, that person is classist?

(see the answer key)

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