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

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

3. Oluo asserts that racism was used to justify the genocide of which people?
(a) Jewish people.
(b) Nomadic people.
(c) People of color.
(d) Indigenous people.

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?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Utility.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Authenticity.

5. The CPE lists all but which of the following weapons in its definition of the use of force from police?
(a) A truncheon.
(b) A gun.
(c) A tazer.
(d) Pepper spray.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Oluo when she and her mother had their first serious discussion about race?

2. What platform did Oluo use to post a message online just before the police officer approached her window in 2015?

3. What does Oluo name as the indicator she knew she would use to measure the success of her book So You Want to Talk About Race?

4. The final paragraph of the Introduction is written from which narrative perspective?

5. "The beliefs that sit in the back of your brain and inform your actions without your implicit knowledge is called what?

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