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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. How old was Tamir Rice when he was shot to death by a policeman?

2. In what grade was Sagan when he was expelled from school?

3. What is NOT a country Oluo names as one from which her childhood friends' parents had come?

4. In what country is the bindi traditionally used for purposes other than a fashion statement?

5. Oluo states in Chapter 14: What is the Model Minority Myth? that many of her neighbors who were poor were also what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What action does Oluo consider crucial in the fight to provide students of color with educations comparable to those of their white peers?

2. What was the number one quality in a friend that meant the most to Oluo during her childhood and why?

3. For what two reasons did Oluo’s eight-year-old son wish to refrain from saying the Pledge of Allegiance aloud in school every day?

4. In what ways was Oluo led to believe that there were things wrong with her identity when she was growing up?

5. What is the goal of affirmative action?

6. Who was Tamir Rice and why is his story significant?

7. How does Oluo define a microaggression and what is one example of a microaggression?

8. What question did the division director at Oluo's work ask her at a meeting and how did she react?

9. What is Oluo's ultimate determination about whether it is alright to ask a black person if they are okay with their hair being touched?

10. What length of time does Oluo claim will have to pass before white people can utter the ‘n’ word without causing harm to black people?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Oluo employ the use or rejection of fallacy within So You Want to Talk About Race and how does the inclusion of fallacy help Oluo to prove particular points made within the text?

Essay Topic 2

What messages does Oluo send to the audience about the themes of isolation and outreach?

Essay Topic 3

Examine how Oluo goes about connecting personal experience with the arguments put forth within So You Want to Talk About Race. How does Oluo accomplish this goal and how does this goal relate to the overarching themes of the text?

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