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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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) Tone policing.
(c) Intersectionality.
(d) Privilege.

4. With whom was Oluo having dinner when she had to excuse herself to launch a program on her phone?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her date.

5. How many of Oluo's brothers did she have with her in the car when she got pulled over for speeding in 2015?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

6. In what month of 2015 was Oluo pulled over by the police for speeding?
(a) July.
(b) December.
(c) September.
(d) Feburary.

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

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

9. How old was Oluo when she joined a social media group for Seattleite people of color?
(a) In her early 30s.
(b) In her early 20s.
(c) In her late 40s.
(d) In her late 20s.

10. 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?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

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) Fear.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Ennui.

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

13. How many lines of traffic did the policeman cross in order to pull Oluo over in 2015?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. 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)?

5. How old was Oluo when she and her mother had their first serious discussion about race?

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