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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: How Can I Talk About Affirmative Action? - Chapter 10: What is Cultural Appropriation?.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to Oluo in Chapter 1: Is it Really About Racism?, the system of racism has been intertwined with what system since the beginning of the United States of America?
(a) The economic system.
(b) The tax system.
(c) The prison system.
(d) The health care system.

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

5. 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 she was waiting to hear from her literary agent.
(b) She said she did not know.
(c) She said that only time would tell.
(d) She said it was a secret.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In Chapter 2: What is Racism?, Oluo discusses a coworker who posted a meme suggesting that recipients of welfare be forced to take what action before receiving benefits?

3. What object does Oluo use in a metaphor depicting the one weapon she says cannot be used "to tear down all the walls" (21) of oppression at once?

4. When Oluo names her many advantages, she points out that her grade school education had been what?

5. How old was Tamir Rice when he was shot to death by a policeman?

(see the answer key)

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