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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which element does Oluo name as being the most important one shared among her childhood friends?
(a) Philosophical.
(b) Racial.
(c) Geographical.
(d) Economic.

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

4. 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 1970s.
(c) The 2000s.
(d) The 1990s.

5. Oluo states that one in how many Latinx men will go to prison in their lifetime?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The chairs at the restaurant discussed in Chapter 10: What is Cultural Appropriation? have what pattern?

3. In the anecdote presented at the start of Chapter 13: Why Are Our Students So Angry?, her son expressed which religious affiliation?

4. The best friend of a particular member of Oluo's family owned what type of African restaurant?

5. When Oluo's family moved to public housing, their new place was located by which landmark?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what year of high school did Oluo attend a conference for promising students of color and how does she characterize the experience?

2. Who was Tamir Rice and why is his story significant?

3. What is the symbolism of the Indian headdress being worn at Coachella by a white festival-goer?

4. What strategy did Oluo’s mother use to make ends meet before applying for public housing and what happened to render that strategy ineffective?

5. How does Oluo use the anecdote about the Africa Lounge to illustrate the missed opportunities inherent in the instance of cultural appropriation?

6. What historical context does Oluo consider crucial to any conversation about white people's desires to touch black people's hair?

7. What question did the division director at Oluo's work ask her at a meeting and how did she react?

8. What action does Oluo consider crucial in the fight to provide students of color with educations comparable to those of their white peers?

9. In what ways was Oluo led to believe that there were things wrong with her identity when she was growing up?

10. How does Oluo define the school-to-prison pipeline?

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