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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which member of Oluo's family is named Aham?
2. 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?
3. 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?
4. Oluo became angry when she discovered that a particular hip-hop artist had a concert booked in which Washington city?
5. Black people have a 3.5-4 times higher probability of having what fate befall them at the hands of police than their white counterparts?
Short Essay Questions
1. What positive aspects of her mother's views about race does Oluo point out and why?
2. In Chapter 1: Is It Really About Race?, Oluo portrays a conversation during which her friend makes what claim about class?
3. How does Oluo portray her mother's views about race as negative?
4. What significant event in Oluo's life did not happen until she was 34 years old?
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. How many rules does Oluo outline for how to determine if a particular issue is really about race and what are they?
7. In what way does Oluo depict the theme of collectivism within the introduction to her book So You Want to Talk About Race?
8. Name three statistics Oluo uses to highlight the problem of police brutality against black people.
9. For what actions does Oluo thank the reader at the end of the preface?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Oluo's decision to include humor within the nonfiction text of So You Want to Talk About Race. What purpose did Oluo have in mind when including these instances of humor and how does the inclusion of these instances support the overarching themes and messages of the text?
Essay Topic 2
How is the theme of invisibility portrayed in So You Want to Talk About Race? Examine Oluo's treatment of and messages regarding invisibility throughout the work.
Essay Topic 3
What ultimate message is Oluo sending about the purpose and value of continually examining the origins of one’s own thought patterns and behaviors?
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