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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. In Chapter 1: Is it Really About Race?, Oluo portrays a conversation with a friend who claims that "The problem in American society is not race, it's" (18) what?
(a) Sex.
(b) Class.
(c) Violence.
(d) Gender.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Oluo states that if she had a male child, he would have what projected chance of ending up in jail, according to recent estimates?

2. What metaphorical element does Oluo use within the Introduction to characterize racism?

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

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

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?

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