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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. What emotion does Irving now feel toward the group who approached her to explain intent and effect?
(a) Anger.
(b) Resentment.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Indebtedness.

2. In Chapter 18: Color-Blind, Irving states that she decided early in life that racism was what sort of conversation topic?
(a) Unseemly.
(b) Volatile.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Boring.

3. What was the first name of Dr. McIntosh, who wrote a famous essay about white privilege?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Peggy.
(c) Mary.
(d) Anne.

4. Irving describes headwinds as working against the efforts of which group?
(a) Immigrants.
(b) White people.
(c) Democrats.
(d) People of color.

5. Around how many Indian boarding schools at one time existed in the United States, all inspired by the Carlisle School?
(a) 150.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 250.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irving recounts in Chapter 28: I Am the Elephant a conversation she had with her friend Kathy, who hails from which country?

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

3. Who wrote the maxim, "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" (114)?

4. Irving conceives of tailwinds as forces working toward the efforts of which group?

5. In Chapter 12: Icebergs, Irving uses an episode of which classic television show to illustrate the "capacity for self-reinforced thinking" (79)?

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