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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. 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?
(a) Gender.
(b) Violence.
(c) Class.
(d) Sex.

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

3. In what state were Oluo and her younger brother born?
(a) California.
(b) Oklahoma.
(c) Texas.
(d) New Jersey.

4. Charles Mudude was an editor at which Seattle newspaper?
(a) The Stranger.
(b) The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
(c) The Seattle Times.
(d) Seattle Weekly.

5. In what grade was Sagan when he was expelled from school?
(a) Kindergarten.
(b) Second.
(c) Third.
(d) First.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which year of high school did Oluo attend a conference for promising students of color?

2. Oluo states that one in how many Latinx men will go to prison in their lifetime?

3. Oluo provides a statistic stating that black drivers are what percentage more likely to get stopped by the police than white drivers?

4. What platform did Oluo use to post a message online just before the police officer approached her window in 2015?

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

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