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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Oluo name as the most crucial element in the fight for social justice and equality?
(a) Power.
(b) Communication.
(c) Time.
(d) Anger.

2. The CPE lists all but which of the following weapons in its definition of the use of force from police?
(a) A gun.
(b) A tazer.
(c) Pepper spray.
(d) A truncheon.

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

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

5. 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) The police.
(c) Banks.
(d) Doctors.

6. What is NOT an adjective Oluo uses in the Introduction to describe the process of writing So You Want to Talk About Race?
(a) Grueling.
(b) Heart-wrenching.
(c) Eye-opening.
(d) Painful.

7. The acronym CPE stands for the Center for what type of Equity?
(a) Pacifist.
(b) Policing.
(c) Partisan.
(d) Public.

8. In Chapter 2: What is Racism?, Oluo discusses a coworker who posted a meme suggesting that recipients of welfare be forced to take what action before receiving benefits?
(a) Prove their sobriety by passing a drug test.
(b) Prove that they have been sterilized.
(c) Prove that they are United States citizens.
(d) Prove that they are looking for employment.

9. 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) Believing.
(d) Hearing.

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

11. 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?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Fear.
(d) Ennui.

12. What is NOT a quality Oluo attributes to the main people racism was created to benefit?
(a) Male.
(b) Educated.
(c) Rich.
(d) White.

13. Charles Mudude was an editor at which Seattle newspaper?
(a) The Stranger.
(b) Seattle Weekly.
(c) The Seattle Times.
(d) The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

14. In Chapter 1: Is it Really About Race?, Oluo portrays a conversation with a friend who claims that "The problem in American society is not race, it's" (18) what?
(a) Class.
(b) Gender.
(c) Sex.
(d) Violence.

15. What kind of loan does Oluo name as a type provided to black people more often than white people?
(a) A home loan.
(b) A reverse mortgage.
(c) A title loan.
(d) A high-interest loan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oluo states that there are how many official definitions of racism?

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

3. What platform did Oluo use to denounce a particular city's choice to host a concert by a particular hip-hop artist?

4. How does Oluo describe the identities of the men who approached Oluo's picnicking group in the Seattle park?

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

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