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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) A baseball bat.
(b) An axe.
(c) A hammer.
(d) A tire iron.

2. 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) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 0.
(d) 1.

3. Which hip-hop artist's booking of a concert near Oluo's place of residence made her angry?
(a) DJ Jazzy Jeff.
(b) Jay-Z.
(c) Lil Wayne.
(d) R Kelly.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Oluo describes the trajectory of her career in what field?

2. 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?

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

5. Oluo states that until what level of her school career, she was always the only black student in her class?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is implicit bias?

2. Why was it particularly important for Oluo to quickly run a program on her phone when she saw trolls inflicting a barrage of negative comments on her on Twitter?

3. To what mistakes does Oluo admit when she discusses the contents of the book's first edition?

4. Which of the two definitions of racism does Oluo subscribe to for the purposes of the book and why?

5. In what way does Oluo depict the theme of collectivism within the introduction to her book So You Want to Talk About Race?

6. What was Ijeoma Oluo's main goal for the text of So You Want to Talk About Race?

7. In what way does the theme of hypocrisy arise within Chapter 4: Why Am I Always Being Told to Check My Privilege?

8. What are the two different definitions of racism, according to Oluo?

9. What were the contents of the meme sent by Oluo's coworker that upset her and sparked an online altercation?

10. What significant event in Oluo's life did not happen until she was 34 years old?

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