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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 is NOT a quality Oluo attributes to the main people racism was created to benefit?
(a) Educated.
(b) White.
(c) Male.
(d) Rich.

2. What adjective does Oluo use in the final sentence of the Introduction when she discusses being "a part of this conversation" (17)?
(a) Awed.
(b) Honored.
(c) Tentative.
(d) Surprised.

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

4. Statisticians predict that out of every three black men born in the current era, how many will be incarcerated by the time they reach adulthood?
(a) 3.
(b) 0.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Oluo states that it is futile to keep running from racism, since it has infiltrated all but which one of the following locations?

2. 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?

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

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

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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