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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. A study by the CPE found that "blacks were almost" how many "times more likely to be subject to force from police" (73) than were their white counterparts?
(a) 10.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

2. The CPE lists all but which of the following weapons in its definition of the use of force from police?
(a) A gun.
(b) A truncheon.
(c) A tazer.
(d) Pepper spray.

3. Oluo states that what length of time will likely pass before a white person is able to say the 'n word' without hurting black people by doing so?
(a) An eternity.
(b) Past our lifetimes.
(c) A century.
(d) Five decades.

4. "The beliefs that sit in the back of your brain and inform your actions without your implicit knowledge is called what?
(a) Implicit deficit.
(b) Implicit ideology.
(c) Implicit bias.
(d) Implicit tendency.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT an element Oluo detected within people's questions about how the book was faring just after its publication?

2. In what location does Oluo have a difficult conversation with a male friend in Chapter 1: Is It Really About Race?

3. According to Oluo in Chapter 1: Is it Really About Racism?, the system of racism has been intertwined with what system since the beginning of the United States of America?

4. Oluo urges the reader in Chapter 8: What is the School-to-Prison Pipeline to "challenge the legitimacy" of which "white-centered" (104) institution?

5. What platform did Oluo use to denounce a particular city's choice to host a concert by a particular hip-hop artist?

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