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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what state were Oluo and her younger brother born?
(a) Oklahoma.
(b) California.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) Texas.

2. 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 outcome.
(d) Its twists and turns.

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

4. Oluo describes the trajectory of her career in what field?
(a) Theater.
(b) Journalism.
(c) Broadcasting.
(d) Marketing.

5. 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 looking for employment.
(d) Prove that they are United States citizens.

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

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

8. What is NOT a trait of her own writing that Oluo mentions as something she gave her readers that many other writers did not offer?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Utility.
(d) Authenticity.

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

10. Statisticians predict that out of every three black men born in the current era, how many will be incarcerated by the time they reach adulthood?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 0.
(d) 2.

11. Oluo notes in the preface that she hopes the reader uses the book to "deconstruct" (12) what?
(a) White supremacy.
(b) The school-to-prison pipeline.
(c) Patriarchy.
(d) The silence surrounding race.

12. What was the weather like on the day Oluo had a picnic in the park with the group she met on social media?
(a) Windy.
(b) Rainy.
(c) Snowy.
(d) Sunny.

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

14. Oluo states that if she had a male child, he would have what projected chance of ending up in jail, according to recent estimates?
(a) 3 in 10.
(b) 1 in 5.
(c) 1 in 10.
(d) 1 in 3.

15. Which member of Oluo's family is named Aham?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Her grandfather.
(d) Her brother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. How many of Oluo's brothers did she have with her in the car when she got pulled over for speeding in 2015?

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

5. Oluo states that from the beginning, she hoped that the book So You Want to Talk About Race would create real what?

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