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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. During a meeting, the division director at Oluo's work asked her what question about her hair?
(a) Whether she had donated her hair to Locks of Love.
(b) Whether her hair was real.
(c) Whether she had recently gotten a haircut.
(d) Whether she dyed her hair.

2. 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) 4.
(c) 13.
(d) 7.

3. What does Oluo name as the indicator she knew she would use to measure the success of her book So You Want to Talk About Race?
(a) Weeks on a bestseller list.
(b) Sales.
(c) Utility.
(d) Audience numbers at book events.

4. What platform did Oluo use to denounce a particular city's choice to host a concert by a particular hip-hop artist?
(a) Instagram.
(b) Facebook.
(c) Twitter.
(d) YouTube.

5. Oluo states that her mother's "optimism and starry-eyed love" (39) came from what source?
(a) Her gender.
(b) Her yoga practice.
(c) Her whiteness.
(d) Her maternal instinct.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oluo asserts that what type of chef must appropriate a culture's food before the food can be sold for high prices?

2. The implementation of what policy in schools is said to be one of the main contributors to the school-to-prison pipeline?

3. Oluo states that if she had a male child, he would have what projected chance of ending up in jail, according to recent estimates?

4. How does Oluo characterize the number of African restaurant offerings in the Pacific Northwest?

5. Oluo recalls that when she had a childhood friend over to stay the night, they would often scrounge up how many dollars to buy dinner?

(see the answer key)

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