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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15: But What if I Hate Al Sharpton? - Chapter 17: Talking is Great but What Else Can I Do?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Oluo asserts that "our class system is" (21) all but which of the following?
(a) Mercurial.
(b) Harmful.
(c) Violent.
(d) Oppressive.

2. With what emotion did Oluo's coworkers watch the situation after the division director asked Oluo a question at the meeting?
(a) Curiosity.
(b) Embarrassment.
(c) Horror.
(d) Sadness.

3. What slur did the "white stranger" (162) who harrassed Oluo online call her when she insisted that racism did indeed affect his country?
(a) Nigger.
(b) Slut.
(c) Bitch.
(d) Cunt.

4. The division director made the situation worse by asking Oluo if she had seen a documentary narrated by which comedian?
(a) Dane Cook.
(b) Mitch Hedberg.
(c) Chris Rock.
(d) Kevin Hart.

5. What location does Oluo name as "a very lonely place" for her for a "very long time" (49)?
(a) Seattle.
(b) Texas.
(c) Spokane.
(d) Salt Lake City.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the actions Oluo suggests in Chapter 17: Talking is Great, but What Else Can I Do? involves supporting increases in what?

2. What color lipstick did a classmate of Oluo's once tell her never to wear?

3. When Oluo describes the ways in which people have retaliated against her for writing about racism, she states that people "have tried to organize protests" (162) of what?

4. Who accused President George W. Bush of not caring about black people in the aftermath of a particular hurricane's devastation?

5. What is NOT a country Oluo names as one from which her childhood friends' parents had come?

(see the answer key)

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