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

2. Oluo states that people of color "want white people to join them in demanding their right to be able to trust the" what "like white people do" (80)?
(a) Banks.
(b) The public school system.
(c) Doctors.
(d) The police.

3. When Oluo names her many advantages, she points out that her grade school education had been what?
(a) Of high quality.
(b) Free.
(c) Safe.
(d) Uninterrupted by war.

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

5. Oluo states that racism was used to justify the enslavement of which people?
(a) Asian people.
(b) Black people.
(c) Indigenous people.
(d) Nomadic people.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the preface, Oluo thanks readers for alerting her to the fact that the first edition of the book used outdated and inconsistent language in discussion of which cultures?

2. The restaurant discussed in Chapter 10: What is Cultural Appropriation? is called Africa what?

3. When Oluo was young, her mother made ends meet by taking on a family of how many people as roommates?

4. What does Oluo name as the indicator she knew she would use to measure the success of her book So You Want to Talk About Race?

5. In what location does Oluo have a difficult conversation with a male friend in Chapter 1: Is It Really About Race?

(see the answer key)

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