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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. How does Oluo describe her mother's identity?
(a) White.
(b) Queer.
(c) Latinx.
(d) Trans.

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

3. Oluo opens Chapter 7: How Can I Talk About Affirmative Action? by discussing what it was like to live in a poor household at what age?
(a) 10.
(b) 7.
(c) 13.
(d) 4.

4. How many lines of traffic did the policeman cross in order to pull Oluo over in 2015?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

5. In the context of social justice, which term means "an advantage or set of advantages you have that others do not" (53)?
(a) Privilege.
(b) Tone policing.
(c) Appropriation.
(d) Intersectionality.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Oluo's youth, which entity did she blame for microaggressions levied against her?

2. Which hip-hop artist's booking of a concert near Oluo's place of residence made her angry?

3. Charles Mudude was an editor at which Seattle newspaper?

4. What kind of loan does Oluo name as a type provided to black people more often than white people?

5. In Chapter 1: Is it Really About Race?, Oluo portrays a conversation with a friend who claims that "The problem in American society is not race, it's" (18) what?

(see the answer key)

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