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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. When Oluo's family moved to public housing, their new place was located by which landmark?
(a) A water park.
(b) A bank.
(c) A university.
(d) A state capitol building.

2. The best friend of a particular member of Oluo's family owned what type of African restaurant?
(a) Senegalese.
(b) West African.
(c) Ghanaian.
(d) Ethiopian.

3. What location does Oluo name as "a very lonely place" for her for a "very long time" (49)?
(a) Salt Lake City.
(b) Texas.
(c) Seattle.
(d) Spokane.

4. Statisticians predict that out of every three black men born in the current era, how many will be incarcerated by the time they reach adulthood?
(a) 0.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Charles Mudude was an editor at which Seattle newspaper?

2. Which sporting event does Oluo use as a metaphor for the racism she and her brother encountered in their youth?

3. Oluo states that at the time of the incident with the division director, she was working in what city?

4. The best friend of which person owned a particular type of African restaurant when Oluo was young?

5. What is NOT an adjective Oluo uses in the Introduction to describe the process of writing So You Want to Talk About Race?

(see the answer key)

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