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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 term does Oluo use when she describes the America many people were misled to believe was in existence?
(a) Community.
(b) Melting-pot.
(c) Conglomeration.
(d) Mosaic.

2. Oluo states that one in how many Latinx men will go to prison in their lifetime?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 10.
(d) 3.

3. Oluo notes in the preface that she hopes the reader uses the book to "deconstruct" (12) what?
(a) The school-to-prison pipeline.
(b) White supremacy.
(c) The silence surrounding race.
(d) Patriarchy.

4. What is NOT an element Oluo detected within people's questions about how the book was faring just after its publication?
(a) How many copies of the book had been sold.
(b) How many millions of dollars the book had produced.
(c) Whether audiences were filling book tour events.
(d) Whether the book had made bestseller lists.

5. What is NOT a quality Oluo attributes to the main people racism was created to benefit?
(a) Rich.
(b) White.
(c) Male.
(d) Educated.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of Oluo's brothers did she have with her in the car when she got pulled over for speeding in 2015?

2. Which aspect of Oluo's first serious conversation about race with her mother made her happy they had talked?

3. In Chapter 8: What is the School-to-Prison Pipeline?, Oluo discusses being contacted by Sagan's mother, who has which first name?

4. Oluo asserts that one in how many black men will go to prison in his lifetime?

5. The implementation of what policy in schools is said to be one of the main contributors to the school-to-prison pipeline?

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