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We describe a method to probe the strength of these interactions, characterized by an effective fine-structure constant α∗(q, ω), as measured with inelastic x-ray scattering (IXS) on graphite. We show how to convert our experimentally obtained spectra, which are proportional to the imaginary part of the response function of graphite, to the full response function of graphene. We compare these results to calculated response functions in the random phase approximation (RPA) with and without interlayer hopping terms, and determine that interlayer hopping alone cannot be responsible for the observed deviations away from the RPA, due to a combination of both electron-hole interactions (excitonic effects) and additional screening from the higher energy bands. Lastly, we describe the theoretical framework for coherent inelastic x-ray scattering, a method to measure the response function for inhomogeneous media, where the off-diagonal elements of the response function are non-trivial. 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