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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) White.
(b) Educated.
(c) Male.
(d) Rich.

2. Charles Mudude was an editor at which Seattle newspaper?
(a) The Stranger.
(b) The Seattle Times.
(c) The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
(d) Seattle Weekly.

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?
(a) She said that only time would tell.
(b) She said she was waiting to hear from her literary agent.
(c) She said it was a secret.
(d) She said she did not know.

4. 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.

5. In the preface, Oluo thanks readers for alerting her to the fact that the first edition of the book used outdated and inconsistent language in discussion of which cultures?
(a) East Indian cultures.
(b) Latinx cultures.
(c) Indigenous cultures.
(d) Asian cultures.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oluo describes the trajectory of her career in what field?

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

3. What term does Oluo use when she describes the America many people were misled to believe was in existence?

4. Oluo notes in the preface that she hopes the reader uses the book to "deconstruct" (12) what?

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

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