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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 music festival does Oluo mention specifically in her illustration of cultural appropriation?

2. Oluo found out much later in life that many of her childhood friends had been either Asian Americans or what?

3. With what emotion did Oluo's coworkers watch the situation after the division director asked Oluo a question at the meeting?

4. The restaurant discussed in Chapter 10: What is Cultural Appropriation? is called Africa what?

5. In what type of setting does Oluo begin the chapter entitled What is Cultural Appropriation?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Name two elements of what Oluo calls “white-centered education” (104).

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

4. In what year of high school did Oluo attend a conference for promising students of color and how does she characterize the experience?

5. Name three main contributors to the school-to-prison pipeline.

6. 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?

7. What is the goal of affirmative action?

8. What is the symbolism of the Indian headdress being worn at Coachella by a white festival-goer?

9. Who is Sagan and for what purpose does Oluo introduce his story?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the significance of the final passages included at the end of So You Want to Talk About Race.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Oluo’s use of metaphor, simile, imagery, and other literary devices as a means to send particular thematic messages within the text of So You Want to Talk About Race.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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