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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: How Can I Talk About Affirmative Action? - Chapter 10: What is Cultural Appropriation?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What platform did Oluo use to denounce a particular city's choice to host a concert by a particular hip-hop artist?
(a) YouTube.
(b) Facebook.
(c) Twitter.
(d) Instagram.

2. Oluo characterizes American society as preferring "its culture cloaked in" (116) what?
(a) Secrecy.
(b) Whiteness.
(c) History.
(d) Delusion.

3. Oluo states that people of color "want white people to join them in demanding their right to be able to trust the" what "like white people do" (80)?
(a) The police.
(b) Doctors.
(c) The public school system.
(d) Banks.

4. Oluo notes in the preface that she hopes the reader uses the book to "deconstruct" (12) what?
(a) The school-to-prison pipeline.
(b) The silence surrounding race.
(c) White supremacy.
(d) Patriarchy.

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

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. Oluo states that she makes her living by talking about what topic?

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. In what type of setting does Oluo begin the chapter entitled What is Cultural Appropriation?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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