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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11: Why Can't I Touch Your Hair? - Chapter 14: What is the Model Minority Myth?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Seeing.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Hearing.
(d) Believing.

2. How many rules does Oluo name when she provides a litmus test for whether an issue is about race or not?
(a) 5.
(b) 7.
(c) 9.
(d) 3.

3. Oluo asserts that one in how many black men will go to prison in his lifetime?
(a) 9.
(b) 3.
(c) 10.
(d) 6.

4. What adjective does Oluo use in the final sentence of the Introduction when she discusses being "a part of this conversation" (17)?
(a) Awed.
(b) Tentative.
(c) Surprised.
(d) Honored.

5. 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) Utility.
(c) Audience numbers at book events.
(d) Sales.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the context of social justice, which term means "an advantage or set of advantages you have that others do not" (53)?

2. Oluo urges the reader in Chapter 8: What is the School-to-Prison Pipeline to "challenge the legitimacy" of which "white-centered" (104) institution?

3. Oluo states that one in how many Latinx men will go to prison in their lifetime?

4. 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?

5. Which ethnicity does Oluo NOT name as one wrapped up in the stereotype of the studious, hardworking Asian?

(see the answer key)

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