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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. Irving reports that she finally came to undersand the adage, "You can only change" (208) what?
(a) Clothes.
(b) The world.
(c) Yourself.
(d) Problems.

2. What term describes a form of help that disempowers the aided person or group?
(a) Savior syndrome.
(b) Messiah moment.
(c) Hero worship.
(d) Dysfunctional resucing.

3. At which institution was Dr. McIntosh teaching when she wrote an influential essay about white privilege?
(a) Yale.
(b) Wellesley.
(c) Princeton.
(d) William and Mary.

4. Who asked Irving why her black classmates were "all in the lower reading groups" (150) at school?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Emily.
(c) Hermione.
(d) Christina.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Irving states that American culture and government have always rejected the idea of America as what object?

2. Irving describes noticing that most children of color at her workplace used which method of getting to school?

3. In Chapter 26: Surviving and Thriving, Irving describes Jane Elliott's experiments based around which element as a marker of status?

4. The fruit from which kind of tree is used in a traditional practice described by Irving?

5. In Chapter 30: Feelings and the Culture of Niceness, Irving states that which element in her past caused her to face uncomfortable feelings by trying to escape from them?

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