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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. 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?
(a) The economic system.
(b) The prison system.
(c) The tax system.
(d) The health care system.

2. What is NOT an adjective Oluo uses in the Introduction to describe the process of writing So You Want to Talk About Race?
(a) Heart-wrenching.
(b) Painful.
(c) Eye-opening.
(d) Grueling.

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?
(a) Weeks on a bestseller list.
(b) Audience numbers at book events.
(c) Utility.
(d) Sales.

4. In the context of social justice, which term means "an advantage or set of advantages you have that others do not" (53)?
(a) Tone policing.
(b) Appropriation.
(c) Privilege.
(d) Intersectionality.

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) Whether the book had made bestseller lists.
(d) How many copies of the book had been sold.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Oluo got pulled over for speeding in 2015, she was given a ticket for driving how many miles per hour over the speed limit?

3. Describing her first conversation with her mother about racism, Oluo states that it had opened up a new way of taking what action in relation to her mother?

4. How did Oluo always respond when people asked her about the success of So You Want to Talk About Race soon after the book's publication?

5. Oluo states that it is futile to keep running from racism, since it has infiltrated all but which one of the following locations?

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