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

2. In Chapter 8: What is the School-to-Prison Pipeline?, Oluo discusses being contacted by Sagan's mother, who has which first name?
(a) Natasha.
(b) Nanette.
(c) Nancy.
(d) Natalie.

3. How old was Oluo the first time she was called the 'n word'?
(a) 9.
(b) 11.
(c) 6.
(d) 14.

4. What object does Oluo use in a metaphor depicting the one weapon she says cannot be used "to tear down all the walls" (21) of oppression at once?
(a) A tire iron.
(b) An axe.
(c) A hammer.
(d) A baseball bat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Tamir Rice fatally shot by a policeman?

2. Ijeoma Oluo states in the preface of So You Want to Talk About Racism that she is writing the preface how many years after the first edition of the book was published?

3. Oluo claims that in which decade, there was a great deal of unrealistic optimism regarding the future of race relations?

4. With what emotion did Oluo's coworkers watch the situation after the division director asked Oluo a question at the meeting?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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