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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. How does Oluo describe her mother's identity?
(a) Trans.
(b) Latinx.
(c) White.
(d) Queer.

2. What element does Oluo name as the only tool people of color often have when they are faced with police brutality?
(a) Visible marks indicating abuse.
(b) The court system.
(c) Witnesses.
(d) Their own account of events.

3. Black people have a 3.5-4 times higher probability of having what fate befall them at the hands of police than their white counterparts?
(a) Being beaten.
(b) Being arrested.
(c) Being wounded.
(d) Being fatally shot.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What metaphorical element does Oluo use within the Introduction to characterize racism?

2. 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?

3. Oluo states that from the beginning, she hoped that the book So You Want to Talk About Race would create real what?

4. Oluo states that if she had a male child, he would have what projected chance of ending up in jail, according to recent estimates?

5. Which aspect of Oluo's first serious conversation about race with her mother made her happy they had talked?

(see the answer key)

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