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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 28: I Am the Elephant - Chapter 36: The Dominant White Culture.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which year did Irving choose a preschool for her eldest daughter?
(a) 1996.
(b) 2005.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1983.

2. How many distinct groups of white mothers did Irving identity at the playgrounnd?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

3. In Chapter 12: Icebergs, Irving uses an episode of which classic television show to illustrate the "capacity for self-reinforced thinking" (79)?
(a) I Love Lucy.
(b) Sanford and Son.
(c) Green Acres.
(d) The Jeffersons.

4. Irving asserts that American culture and government have always embraced the idea of America as what object?
(a) A city on a hill.
(b) A melting pot.
(c) A mosaic.
(d) A black hole.

5. What sort of profession did Kenneth Cushner hold when he thought about culture as an iceberg?
(a) A sociologist.
(b) A physician.
(c) A social worker.
(d) A psychiatrist.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 29: Intent and Impact, Irving compares a swimming pool to which other body of water?

2. The subtitle of Chapter 25: Belonging states, "How my sense of belonging also allowed me to feel" (155) what?

3. Which object was involved in Irving's realizations about her own appearance?

4. Irving states that race has been a problem in America for how many years?

5. When Irving was not yet ready to examine her own white privilege, which other quality of her identity did she decide to start with?

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