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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11: Why Can't I Touch Your Hair? - Chapter 14: What is the Model Minority Myth?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT a country Oluo names as one from which her childhood friends' parents had come?
(a) The Philippines.
(b) India.
(c) Guam.
(d) South Korea.

2. What food did Oluo often buy to ease her childhood hunger?
(a) Macaroni and cheese.
(b) Chips.
(c) Ramen.
(d) Crackers.

3. Oluo states that people of color "want white people to join them in demanding their right to be able to trust the" what "like white people do" (80)?
(a) The public school system.
(b) The police.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Banks.

4. Oluo insists at the end of Chapter 3: What If I Talk About Race Wrong? that it is crucial that in the fight for social justice, we disregard our what?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Fear.
(c) Ennui.
(d) Jealousy.

5. The restaurant discussed in Chapter 10: What is Cultural Appropriation? is called Africa what?
(a) Lounge.
(b) Sunrise.
(c) Sunset.
(d) Safari.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oluo opens Chapter 7: How Can I Talk About Affirmative Action? by discussing what it was like to live in a poor household at what age?

2. Which member of Oluo's family is named Aham?

3. How old was Oluo when she and her mother had their first serious discussion about race?

4. Oluo's definition of a microaggression mentions "daily insults and" (130) what?

5. "The beliefs that sit in the back of your brain and inform your actions without your implicit knowledge is called what?

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