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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. The best friend of which person owned a particular type of African restaurant when Oluo was young?

2. In Oluo's youth, which entity did she blame for microaggressions levied against her?

3. The division director made the situation worse by asking Oluo if she had seen a documentary narrated by which comedian?

4. Oluo states that at the time of the incident with the division director, she was working in what city?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What strategy did Oluo’s mother use to make ends meet before applying for public housing and what happened to render that strategy ineffective?

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

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. What does the ramen symbolize within Oluo’s anecdote about a sleepover in Chapter 7: How Can I Talk About Affirmative Action?

6. 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?

7. What is Oluo’s advice regarding white people’s use of the ‘n’ word and how does her advice value compassion over understanding?

8. How does Oluo define the school-to-prison pipeline?

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

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

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 topic of fear treated within So You Want to Talk About Race and how does its treatment relate to the book's depicted messages?

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