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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. What toy resembling a weapon was Tamir Rice holding in his hand when he was fatally shot by a policeman?
(a) A toy crossbow.
(b) A toy sword.
(c) A toy grenade.
(d) A toy gun.

2. What food did Oluo often buy to ease her childhood hunger?
(a) Chips.
(b) Crackers.
(c) Macaroni and cheese.
(d) Ramen.

3. In what month of 2015 was Oluo pulled over by the police for speeding?
(a) Feburary.
(b) December.
(c) September.
(d) July.

4. When Oluo's family moved to public housing, their new place was located by which landmark?
(a) A university.
(b) A state capitol building.
(c) A bank.
(d) A water park.

5. In the anecdote presented at the start of Chapter 13: Why Are Our Students So Angry?, her son expressed which religious affiliation?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Agnosticism.
(c) Atheism.
(d) Catholicism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Statisticians predict that out of every three black men born in the current era, how many will be incarcerated by the time they reach adulthood?

2. 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?

3. What is NOT an element Oluo detected within people's questions about how the book was faring just after its publication?

4. The final paragraph of the Introduction is written from which narrative perspective?

5. Oluo states that racism was used to justify the enslavement of which people?

(see the answer key)

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