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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. In what location does Oluo have a difficult conversation with a male friend in Chapter 1: Is It Really About Race?
(a) A cafeteria.
(b) A coffee shop.
(c) A bookstore.
(d) A library.

2. A study by the CPE found that "blacks were almost" how many "times more likely to be subject to force from police" (73) than were their white counterparts?
(a) 6.
(b) 10.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

3. Oluo notes in the preface that she hopes the reader uses the book to "deconstruct" (12) what?
(a) White supremacy.
(b) The school-to-prison pipeline.
(c) The silence surrounding race.
(d) Patriarchy.

4. 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?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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. The acronym CPE stands for the Center for what type of Equity?

4. What is NOT a trait of her own writing that Oluo mentions as something she gave her readers that many other writers did not offer?

5. What is NOT an adjective Oluo uses in the Introduction to describe the process of writing So You Want to Talk About Race?

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