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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. Oluo asserts that racism was used to justify the genocide of which people?
(a) Indigenous people.
(b) Nomadic people.
(c) People of color.
(d) Jewish people.

2. What term does Oluo use when she describes the America many people were misled to believe was in existence?
(a) Community.
(b) Mosaic.
(c) Melting-pot.
(d) Conglomeration.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What event is statistically more likely to happen to a black high school student than a white student, according to Oluo?

3. Oluo states that it is futile to keep running from racism, since it has infiltrated all but which one of the following locations?

4. A study by the CPE found that "blacks were almost" how many "times more likely to be subject to force from police" (73) than were their white counterparts?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Oluo portray her mother's views about race as negative?

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

3. What is implicit bias?

4. What suggestions does Oluo's friend make for how to improve the lives of those in the lower classes in Chapter 1: Is It Really About Race?

5. What action did Oluo take in her early thirties that put an end to the loneliness she had been experiencing for decades in the greater Seattle area?

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

7. What is the ultimate goal in relation to solving the police brutality problem, according to Oluo?

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

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

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

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