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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. Oluo states that there are how many official definitions of racism?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

2. 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 copies of the book had been sold.
(c) Whether the book had made bestseller lists.
(d) How many millions of dollars the book had produced.

3. On what platform did Oluo find the social media group that she eventually joined in the Seattle area?
(a) Instagram.
(b) Facebook.
(c) SnapChat.
(d) MySpace.

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. When Oluo names her many advantages, she points out that her grade school education had been what?
(a) Of high quality.
(b) Safe.
(c) Uninterrupted by war.
(d) Free.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT a quality Oluo attributes to the main people racism was created to benefit?

2. Oluo provides a statistic stating that black drivers are what percentage more likely to get stopped by the police than white drivers?

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

4. With whom was Oluo having dinner when she had to excuse herself to launch a program on her phone?

5. Over how many hours did Oluo engage with her coworker online the evening of the described altercation?

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