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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. Oluo characterizes American society as preferring "its culture cloaked in" (116) what?
2. Oluo recalls wanting to spend time with friends she felt comfortable accompanying to what location?
3. Oluo states that "at its core," cultural appropriation is "about ownership of one's" (114) what?
4. In the anecdote presented at the start of Chapter 13: Why Are Our Students So Angry?, her son expressed which religious affiliation?
5. Oluo insists near the end of Chapter 8: What is the School-to-Prison Pipeline that people must request truly diverse and inclusive what for all children in their communities?
Short Essay Questions
1. Name three main contributors to the school-to-prison pipeline.
2. Who is Sagan and for what purpose does Oluo introduce his story?
3. What was the number one quality in a friend that meant the most to Oluo during her childhood and why?
4. 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?
5. What question did the division director at Oluo's work ask her at a meeting and how did she react?
6. In what ways was Oluo led to believe that there were things wrong with her identity when she was growing up?
7. 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?
8. What does the ramen symbolize within Oluo’s anecdote about a sleepover in Chapter 7: How Can I Talk About Affirmative Action?
9. What strategy did Oluo’s mother use to make ends meet before applying for public housing and what happened to render that strategy ineffective?
10. In what year of high school did Oluo attend a conference for promising students of color and how does she characterize the experience?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What message does Oluo send within the pages of So You Want to Talk About Race concerning the link between privilege and the ability to change the world for the better?
Essay Topic 2
In what way does Oluo go about breaking the text into parts and how do these structural elements help to advance the text’s arguments?
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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