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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) Filas.
(c) A fur coat.
(d) A sari.

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. What is NOT a quality Oluo attributes to the main people racism was created to benefit?
(a) Male.
(b) White.
(c) Educated.
(d) Rich.

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

5. When Oluo got pulled over for speeding in 2015, she was given a ticket for driving how many miles per hour over the speed limit?
(a) 10.
(b) 1.
(c) 5.
(d) 8.

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. 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?

3. What adjective did Steve Loomis, the police department's union president, use to describe his impression of Tamir Rice's appearance?

4. What is NOT an element Oluo's friend mentions in the list of ways he would help the lower classes?

5. 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?

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