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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. To what sort of location did Oluo go with a friend the day after her online altercation with a coworker?
(a) A classroom.
(b) A bookstore.
(c) A coffee shop.
(d) A park.

2. In Chapter 2: What is Racism?, Oluo discusses a coworker who posted a meme suggesting that recipients of welfare be forced to take what action before receiving benefits?
(a) Prove that they are United States citizens.
(b) Prove that they have been sterilized.
(c) Prove that they are looking for employment.
(d) Prove their sobriety by passing a drug test.

3. Oluo states that her mother's "optimism and starry-eyed love" (39) came from what source?
(a) Her maternal instinct.
(b) Her yoga practice.
(c) Her gender.
(d) Her whiteness.

4. Which sporting event does Oluo use as a metaphor for the racism she and her brother encountered in their youth?
(a) Shot-put.
(b) Javelin.
(c) Triathlon.
(d) Hurdles.

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?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 0.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. According to Oluo in Chapter 1: Is it Really About Racism?, the system of racism has been intertwined with what system since the beginning of the United States of America?

4. When Oluo names her many advantages, she points out that her grade school education had been what?

5. What was the weather like on the day Oluo had a picnic in the park with the group she met on social media?

(see the answer key)

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