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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface - Chapter 2: What is Racism?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of loan does Oluo name as a type provided to black people more often than white people?
(a) A home loan.
(b) A title loan.
(c) A high-interest loan.
(d) A reverse mortgage.

2. 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.

3. What is NOT an element Oluo detected within people's questions about how the book was faring just after its publication?
(a) Whether audiences were filling book tour events.
(b) How many millions of dollars the book had produced.
(c) Whether the book had made bestseller lists.
(d) How many copies of the book had been sold.

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

5. What is NOT an adjective Oluo uses in the Introduction to describe the process of writing So You Want to Talk About Race?
(a) Painful.
(b) Heart-wrenching.
(c) Eye-opening.
(d) Grueling.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what location does Oluo have a difficult conversation with a male friend in Chapter 1: Is It Really About Race?

2. In the preface, Oluo thanks readers for alerting her to the fact that the first edition of the book used outdated and inconsistent language in discussion of which cultures?

3. 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?

4. What does Oluo name as the most crucial element in the fight for social justice and equality?

5. What event is statistically more likely to happen to a black high school student than a white student, according to Oluo?

(see the answer key)

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