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

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?
(a) 1 in 3.
(b) 1 in 5.
(c) 1 in 10.
(d) 3 in 10.

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 In the preface, Oluo thanks readers for alerting her to the fact that the first edition of the book used outdated and inconsistent language in discussion of which cultures?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

4. What does Oluo name as the most crucial element in the fight for social justice and equality?
(a) Anger.
(b) Power.
(c) Communication.
(d) Time.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT an element Oluo's friend mentions in the list of ways he would help the lower classes?

2. 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?

3. What is NOT an element Oluo detected within people's questions about how the book was faring just after its publication?

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

5. 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?

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