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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: How Can I Talk About Affirmative Action? - Chapter 10: What is Cultural Appropriation?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What metaphorical element does Oluo use within the Introduction to characterize racism?
(a) A hurricane.
(b) A mummy.
(c) A tornado.
(d) A monster.

2. What event is statistically more likely to happen to a black high school student than a white student, according to Oluo?
(a) Expulsion.
(b) Graduation.
(c) Suspension.
(d) Detention.

3. In what grade was Sagan when he was expelled from school?
(a) Third.
(b) Second.
(c) Kindergarten.
(d) First.

4. Oluo warns the reader to be careful not to confuse the meanings of the word appropriation and which other word?
(a) Apprehension.
(b) Appellate.
(c) Appreciation.
(d) Apoplectic.

5. In the context of social justice, which term means "an advantage or set of advantages you have that others do not" (53)?
(a) Tone policing.
(b) Intersectionality.
(c) Appropriation.
(d) Privilege.

Short Answer Questions

1. The acronym CPE stands for the Center for what type of Equity?

2. Oluo states that there are how many official definitions of racism?

3. Oluo characterizes American society as preferring "its culture cloaked in" (116) what?

4. What platform did Oluo use to post a message online just before the police officer approached her window in 2015?

5. When Oluo names her many advantages, she points out that her grade school education had been what?

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