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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. Over how many hours did Oluo engage with her coworker online the evening of the described altercation?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

2. What event is statistically more likely to happen to a black high school student than a white student, according to Oluo?
(a) Graduation.
(b) Expulsion.
(c) Detention.
(d) Suspension.

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 copies of the book had been sold.
(c) Whether the book had made bestseller lists.
(d) How many millions of dollars the book had produced.

4. Oluo states that if she had a male child, he would have what projected chance of ending up in jail, according to recent estimates?
(a) 1 in 5.
(b) 3 in 10.
(c) 1 in 3.
(d) 1 in 10.

5. What metaphorical element does Oluo use within the Introduction to characterize racism?
(a) A mummy.
(b) A tornado.
(c) A hurricane.
(d) A monster.

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. Oluo states that racism was used to justify the enslavement of which people?

3. Ijeoma Oluo states in the preface of So You Want to Talk About Racism that she is writing the preface how many years after the first edition of the book was published?

4. 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?

5. What determination does Oluo make in the preface about the success of the book So You Want to Talk About Race?

(see the answer key)

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