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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 became angry when she discovered that a particular hip-hop artist had a concert booked in which Washington city?
(a) Vancouver.
(b) Spokane.
(c) Seattle.
(d) Tacoma.

2. The best friend of which person owned a particular type of African restaurant when Oluo was young?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her aunt.

3. What is the subject of the mural on the wall of the restaurant featured in Chapter 10: What is Cultural Appropriation?
(a) Diversity.
(b) Cannibals.
(c) Jungle plants.
(d) Cavemen.

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

5. The restaurant discussed in Chapter 10: What is Cultural Appropriation? is called Africa what?
(a) Lounge.
(b) Safari.
(c) Sunset.
(d) Sunrise.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Oluo states that her mother's "optimism and starry-eyed love" (39) came from what source?

3. Oluo recalls finding out later in life that many of her childhood friends' parents had fled from countries affected by what?

4. Which aspect of Oluo's first serious conversation about race with her mother made her happy they had talked?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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