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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11: Why Can't I Touch Your Hair? - Chapter 14: What is the Model Minority Myth?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT a trait of her own writing that Oluo mentions as something she gave her readers that many other writers did not offer?
(a) Authenticity.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Utility.

2. What determination does Oluo make in the preface about the success of the book So You Want to Talk About Race?
(a) She thinks it was unsuccessful.
(b) She thinks it was successful.
(c) She does not know.
(d) She thinks it was partially successful.

3. Oluo states that "at its core," cultural appropriation is "about ownership of one's" (114) what?
(a) Culture.
(b) Mistakes.
(c) Identity.
(d) Ancestry.

4. Oluo asserts that "our class system is" (21) all but which of the following?
(a) Violent.
(b) Mercurial.
(c) Harmful.
(d) Oppressive.

5. Chapter 13: Why Are Our Students So Angry? begins with a story about Oluo's son who was how old at the time?
(a) 13.
(b) 11.
(c) 8.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Oluo became angry when she discovered that a particular hip-hop artist had a concert booked in which Washington city?

3. During a meeting, the division director at Oluo's work asked her what question about her hair?

4. For how many days did the conference for promising students of color last?

5. The chairs at the restaurant discussed in Chapter 10: What is Cultural Appropriation? have what pattern?

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