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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 object does Oluo use in a metaphor depicting the one weapon she says cannot be used "to tear down all the walls" (21) of oppression at once?
(a) A baseball bat.
(b) An axe.
(c) A tire iron.
(d) A hammer.

2. Over how many hours did Oluo engage with her coworker online the evening of the described altercation?
(a) 8.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

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 public school system.
(b) Doctors.
(c) The police.
(d) Banks.

4. How does Oluo characterize the number of African restaurant offerings in the Pacific Northwest?
(a) Above average.
(b) Average.
(c) Inundated.
(d) Scant.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What is NOT a quality Oluo attributes to the main people racism was created to benefit?

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. In what state were Oluo and her younger brother born?

(see the answer key)

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