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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Oluo states that there are how many official definitions of racism?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

4. Oluo became angry when she discovered that a particular hip-hop artist had a concert booked in which Washington city?
(a) Spokane.
(b) Tacoma.
(c) Seattle.
(d) Vancouver.

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

6. In the preface, Oluo thanks readers for alerting her to the fact that the first edition of the book used outdated and inconsistent language in discussion of which cultures?
(a) Indigenous cultures.
(b) Latinx cultures.
(c) East Indian cultures.
(d) Asian cultures.

7. 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?
(a) The health care system.
(b) The tax system.
(c) The prison system.
(d) The economic system.

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

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) Believing.
(b) Hearing.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Seeing.

10. Oluo states that racism was used to justify the enslavement of which people?
(a) Black people.
(b) Nomadic people.
(c) Indigenous people.
(d) Asian people.

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

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

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

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

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

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

3. How many rules does Oluo name when she provides a litmus test for whether an issue is about race or not?

4. 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?

5. The final paragraph of the Introduction is written from which narrative perspective?

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