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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. 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?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 0.

2. In the preface, Oluo thanks readers for alerting her to the fact that the first edition of the book used outdated and inconsistent language in discussion of which cultures?
(a) Indigenous cultures.
(b) Asian cultures.
(c) Latinx cultures.
(d) East Indian cultures.

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

4. When Oluo names her many advantages, she points out that her grade school education had been what?
(a) Of high quality.
(b) Free.
(c) Uninterrupted by war.
(d) Safe.

5. What superlative does Oluo use to describe the way in which cultural appropriation functions as a topic of discussion?
(a) Fastest.
(b) Ugliest.
(c) Subtlest.
(d) Trickiest.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2: What is Racism?, Oluo discusses a coworker who posted a meme suggesting that recipients of welfare be forced to take what action before receiving benefits?

2. How old was Oluo when she joined a social media group for Seattleite people of color?

3. Oluo states that which common elements of public education are tailored to white students?

4. What is NOT a quality Oluo attributes to the main people racism was created to benefit?

5. How does Oluo describe the identities of the men who approached Oluo's picnicking group in the Seattle park?

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