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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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) Snowy.
(c) Rainy.
(d) Sunny.

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

4. How does Oluo describe her mother's identity?
(a) White.
(b) Trans.
(c) Queer.
(d) Latinx.

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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 police.
(b) Doctors.
(c) Banks.
(d) The public school system.

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

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

11. In what location does Oluo have a difficult conversation with a male friend in Chapter 1: Is It Really About Race?
(a) A bookstore.
(b) A library.
(c) A coffee shop.
(d) A cafeteria.

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

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

14. 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?
(a) Audience numbers at book events.
(b) Sales.
(c) Utility.
(d) Weeks on a bestseller list.

15. What is NOT an element Oluo detected within people's questions about how the book was faring just after its publication?
(a) How many copies of the book had been sold.
(b) Whether the book had made bestseller lists.
(c) How many millions of dollars the book had produced.
(d) Whether audiences were filling book tour events.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the context of social justice, which term means "an advantage or set of advantages you have that others do not" (53)?

2. What metaphorical element does Oluo use within the Introduction to characterize racism?

3. When Oluo got pulled over for speeding in 2015, she was given a ticket for driving how many miles per hour over the speed limit?

4. Oluo provides a statistic stating that black drivers are what percentage more likely to get stopped by the police than white drivers?

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

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