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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. How did Oluo always respond when people asked her about the success of So You Want to Talk About Race soon after the book's publication?
(a) She said that only time would tell.
(b) She said she was waiting to hear from her literary agent.
(c) She said she did not know.
(d) She said it was a secret.

2. What is NOT an element Oluo detected within people's questions about how the book was faring just after its publication?
(a) How many millions of dollars the book had produced.
(b) How many copies of the book had been sold.
(c) Whether audiences were filling book tour events.
(d) Whether the book had made bestseller lists.

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

4. Which member of Oluo's family is named Aham?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her grandfather.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her uncle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state were Oluo and her younger brother born?

2. Oluo urges the reader in Chapter 8: What is the School-to-Prison Pipeline to "challenge the legitimacy" of which "white-centered" (104) institution?

3. Oluo states that from the beginning, she hoped that the book So You Want to Talk About Race would create real what?

4. 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?

5. Oluo recalls being told by white classmates that at least black men liked what quality she possessed?

(see the answer key)

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