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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Oluo claims that in which decade, there was a great deal of unrealistic optimism regarding the future of race relations?
(a) The 1980s.
(b) The 1990s.
(c) The 1970s.
(d) The 2000s.

3. How many items does Oluo include within her bulleted list of some main contributors to the school-to-prison pipeline?
(a) 6.
(b) 8.
(c) 3.
(d) 15.

4. In what type of setting does Oluo begin the chapter entitled What is Cultural Appropriation?
(a) A library.
(b) A carnival.
(c) A bank.
(d) An airport.

5. In what city was Ijeoma Oluo working when the division director asked a question about her hair?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Seattle.

6. Which party involved in the exchange of microaggressions often does not recognize her own role?
(a) The victim.
(b) The perpetrator.
(c) The witness.
(d) The law.

7. Oluo asserts that what type of chef must appropriate a culture's food before the food can be sold for high prices?
(a) Award-winning.
(b) Male.
(c) White.
(d) French.

8. What is NOT a country Oluo names as one from which her childhood friends' parents had come?
(a) The Philippines.
(b) India.
(c) South Korea.
(d) Guam.

9. What color lipstick did a classmate of Oluo's once tell her never to wear?
(a) Pink.
(b) Purple.
(c) Orange.
(d) Red.

10. 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) Nancy.
(c) Nanette.
(d) Natalie.

11. In what grade was Sagan when he was expelled from school?
(a) Second.
(b) First.
(c) Kindergarten.
(d) Third.

12. Chapter 13: Why Are Our Students So Angry? begins with a story about Oluo's son who was how old at the time?
(a) 13.
(b) 8.
(c) 11.
(d) 4.

13. The chairs at the restaurant discussed in Chapter 10: What is Cultural Appropriation? have what pattern?
(a) Cheetah.
(b) Houndstooth.
(c) Zebra.
(d) Paisley.

14. Oluo states that at the time of the incident with the division director, she was working in what city?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Seattle.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Houston.

15. Which comedian and actor was known as America's dad due to his role as Cliff Huxtable on television?
(a) Chris Rock.
(b) Eddie Murphy.
(c) Bill Cosby.
(d) Martin Lawrence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oluo states that what length of time will likely pass before a white person is able to say the 'n word' without hurting black people by doing so?

2. For how many days did the conference for promising students of color last?

3. What item does Oluo deem unacceptable for white people to wear at music festivals?

4. In what country is the bindi traditionally used for purposes other than a fashion statement?

5. Which ethnicity does Oluo NOT name as one wrapped up in the stereotype of the studious, hardworking Asian?

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