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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Oluo names her many advantages, she points out that her grade school education had been what?
(a) Uninterrupted by war.
(b) Of high quality.
(c) Free.
(d) Safe.

2. Oluo states that until what level of her school career, she was always the only black student in her class?
(a) High school.
(b) Junior high.
(c) College.
(d) Middle school.

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

4. What is NOT an element Oluo's friend mentions in the list of ways he would help the lower classes?
(a) Encouraging job training.
(b) Cutting rates of food insecurity.
(c) Raising the minimum wage.
(d) Strengthening unions.

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

6. What determination does Oluo make in the preface about the success of the book So You Want to Talk About Race?
(a) She thinks it was successful.
(b) She thinks it was partially successful.
(c) She thinks it was unsuccessful.
(d) She does not know.

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

8. Oluo asserts that "our class system is" (21) all but which of the following?
(a) Mercurial.
(b) Oppressive.
(c) Violent.
(d) Harmful.

9. Which hip-hop artist's booking of a concert near Oluo's place of residence made her angry?
(a) DJ Jazzy Jeff.
(b) R Kelly.
(c) Lil Wayne.
(d) Jay-Z.

10. 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?
(a) The prison system.
(b) The tax system.
(c) The economic system.
(d) The health care system.

11. 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 arrested.
(b) Being beaten.
(c) Being wounded.
(d) Being fatally shot.

12. Oluo asserts that racism was used to justify the genocide of which people?
(a) Nomadic people.
(b) Jewish people.
(c) People of color.
(d) Indigenous people.

13. Oluo states that she makes her living by talking about what topic?
(a) Race.
(b) Class.
(c) Gay rights.
(d) Gender.

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

15. Which aspect of Oluo's first serious conversation about race with her mother made her happy they had talked?
(a) Its laughter.
(b) Its outcome.
(c) Its twists and turns.
(d) Its tears.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month of 2015 was Oluo pulled over by the police for speeding?

2. 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?

3. On what platform did Oluo find the social media group that she eventually joined in the Seattle area?

4. What element does Oluo name as the only tool people of color often have when they are faced with police brutality?

5. How does Oluo describe her mother's identity?

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