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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: What if I Talk About Race Wrong? - Chapter 6: Is Police Brutality Really About Race?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "The beliefs that sit in the back of your brain and inform your actions without your implicit knowledge is called what?
(a) Implicit deficit.
(b) Implicit tendency.
(c) Implicit bias.
(d) Implicit ideology.

2. Which aspect of Oluo's first serious conversation about race with her mother made her happy they had talked?
(a) Its twists and turns.
(b) Its outcome.
(c) Its laughter.
(d) Its tears.

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 In the preface, Oluo thanks readers for alerting her to the fact that the first edition of the book used outdated and inconsistent language in discussion of which cultures?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

4. Oluo describes the trajectory of her career in what field?
(a) Marketing.
(b) Journalism.
(c) Broadcasting.
(d) Theater.

5. 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) Violence.
(b) Class.
(c) Sex.
(d) Gender.

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. How many rules does Oluo name when she provides a litmus test for whether an issue is about race or not?

3. In what location does Oluo have a difficult conversation with a male friend in Chapter 1: Is It Really About Race?

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

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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