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

2. When Oluo's family moved to public housing, their new place was located by which landmark?
(a) A university.
(b) A bank.
(c) A water park.
(d) A state capitol building.

3. What is NOT a term Oluo uses to describe her mother?
(a) Kind.
(b) Combative.
(c) Exhausting.
(d) Generous.

4. Oluo states that she makes her living by talking about what topic?
(a) Gender.
(b) Race.
(c) Gay rights.
(d) Class.

5. How many months of the school year did Sagan attend before he was expelled?
(a) 5.
(b) 7.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Oluo always respond when people asked her about the success of So You Want to Talk About Race soon after the book's publication?

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

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

5. Statisticians predict that out of every three black men born in the current era, how many will be incarcerated by the time they reach adulthood?

(see the answer key)

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