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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Oluo states that her mother's "optimism and starry-eyed love" (39) came from what source?
(a) Her maternal instinct.
(b) Her gender.
(c) Her yoga practice.
(d) Her whiteness.

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

4. "The beliefs that sit in the back of your brain and inform your actions without your implicit knowledge is called what?
(a) Implicit ideology.
(b) Implicit tendency.
(c) Implicit deficit.
(d) Implicit bias.

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

6. How does Oluo describe the identities of the men who approached Oluo's picnicking group in the Seattle park?
(a) Latinx.
(b) White.
(c) Trans.
(d) Black.

7. 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) Sex.
(b) Class.
(c) Gender.
(d) Violence.

8. What element does Oluo name as the only tool people of color often have when they are faced with police brutality?
(a) The court system.
(b) Their own account of events.
(c) Visible marks indicating abuse.
(d) Witnesses.

9. The final paragraph of the Introduction is written from which narrative perspective?
(a) Second person.
(b) Third person.
(c) First person.
(d) Third person omniscient.

10. What event is statistically more likely to happen to a black high school student than a white student, according to Oluo?
(a) Expulsion.
(b) Suspension.
(c) Graduation.
(d) Detention.

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

12. What location does Oluo name as "a very lonely place" for her for a "very long time" (49)?
(a) Spokane.
(b) Seattle.
(c) Salt Lake City.
(d) Texas.

13. How old was Oluo when she and her mother had their first serious discussion about race?
(a) 22.
(b) 41.
(c) 34.
(d) 14.

14. What is NOT a term Oluo uses to describe her mother?
(a) Combative.
(b) Kind.
(c) Exhausting.
(d) Generous.

15. Oluo states that from the beginning, she hoped that the book So You Want to Talk About Race would create real what?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Change.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Anger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oluo states that if she had a male child, he would have what projected chance of ending up in jail, according to recent estimates?

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 object does Oluo use in a metaphor depicting the one weapon she says cannot be used "to tear down all the walls" (21) of oppression at once?

4. To what sort of location did Oluo go with a friend the day after her online altercation with a coworker?

5. Ijeoma Oluo states in the preface of So You Want to Talk About Racism that she is writing the preface how many years after the first edition of the book was published?

(see the answer keys)

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