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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 element does Oluo name as the only tool people of color often have when they are faced with police brutality?
(a) Visible marks indicating abuse.
(b) Witnesses.
(c) Their own account of events.
(d) The court system.

2. What item does Oluo deem unacceptable for white people to wear at music festivals?
(a) A sari.
(b) A fur coat.
(c) An Indian headdress.
(d) Filas.

3. Oluo asserts that one in how many black men will go to prison in his lifetime?
(a) 9.
(b) 3.
(c) 10.
(d) 6.

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

5. The implementation of what policy in schools is said to be one of the main contributors to the school-to-prison pipeline?
(a) In-school suspension.
(b) Dress code.
(c) Attendance.
(d) Zero-tolerance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Black people have a 3.5-4 times higher probability of having what fate befall them at the hands of police than their white counterparts?

2. Describing her first conversation with her mother about racism, Oluo states that it had opened up a new way of taking what action in relation to her mother?

3. What platform did Oluo use to denounce a particular city's choice to host a concert by a particular hip-hop artist?

4. What food did Oluo often buy to ease her childhood hunger?

5. Oluo recalls wanting to spend time with friends she felt comfortable accompanying to what location?

(see the answer key)

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