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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. The best friend of a particular member of Oluo's family owned what type of African restaurant?

3. How many items does Oluo include within her bulleted list of some main contributors to the school-to-prison pipeline?

4. For how many days did the conference for promising students of color last?

5. A classmate of Oluo's once told her that if she wore a certain color of lipstick, she would look like a what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What point does Oluo make about the negative effects of the optimism in the 1980s regarding race relations?

2. What historical context does Oluo consider crucial to any conversation about white people's desires to touch black people's hair?

3. What is the real problem with the model minority myth, according to Oluo?

4. What is the goal of affirmative action?

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

Discuss Oluo’s use of Aristotle's appeals within the text of So You Want to Talk About Race. How does Oluo use each of the three appeals to persuade the reader of argumentative points central to the tenets of the work?

Essay Topic 2

Determine Oluo’s message within the book So You Want to Talk About Race regarding the role that intersectionality must play in any plan designed to redress any one form of oppression within society.

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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