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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 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) Witnesses.
(c) Their own account of events.
(d) The court system.

2. What toy resembling a weapon was Tamir Rice holding in his hand when he was fatally shot by a policeman?
(a) A toy crossbow.
(b) A toy sword.
(c) A toy gun.
(d) A toy grenade.

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?
(a) Hearing.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Believing.
(d) Seeing.

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) Patriarchy.
(c) The silence surrounding race.
(d) White supremacy.

5. In what city was Tamir Rice shot by a policeman while holding a particular toy in the park?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) Daytona.
(c) Sacramento.
(d) Salt Lake City.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oluo insists at the end of Chapter 3: What If I Talk About Race Wrong? that it is crucial that in the fight for social justice, we disregard our what?

2. 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?

3. What is the subject of the mural on the wall of the restaurant featured in Chapter 10: What is Cultural Appropriation?

4. What term does Oluo use when she describes the America many people were misled to believe was in existence?

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

(see the answer key)

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