1. How many rules does Oluo name when she provides a litmus test for whether an issue is about race or not?
(a) 9.
(b) 7.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

2. 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.

3. Oluo states that racism was used to justify the enslavement of which people?
(a) Asian people.
(b) Indigenous people.
(c) Black people.
(d) Nomadic people.

4. 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?
(a) Sales.
(b) Audience numbers at book events.
(c) Weeks on a bestseller list.
(d) Utility.

5. 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) Honesty.
(b) Authenticity.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Utility.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. How did Oluo always respond when people asked her about the success of So You Want to Talk About Race soon after the book's publication?

4. Oluo asserts that racism was used to justify the genocide of which people?

5. The final paragraph of the Introduction is written from which narrative perspective?

(see the answer key)

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