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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 Chapter 32: Getting Over Myself, Irving speaks to those experiencing which symptom as a result of considering a courageous conversation?
(a) Tremors.
(b) Hives.
(c) Lethargy.
(d) Jaundice.

2. In which grade was Irving's student named Jared, whom she discusses in Chapter 27: Living Into Expectations?
(a) 4th.
(b) 9th.
(c) 6th.
(d) 2nd.

3. Irving points out in Chapter 16: Logos and Stereotypes that humans are the only creatures on earth who use which objects to make sense of their world?
(a) Sounds.
(b) Maps.
(c) Symbols.
(d) Landmarks.

4. Which city does Irving use in Chapter 21: Straddling Two Worlds to stand in for an almost-exclusively white location?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Camby.
(c) Winchester.
(d) Honoree.

5. What term is used to describe the rule in which people of mixed races in America are assigned the identity of the race considered inferior by the dominant white culture?
(a) Hyphenation.
(b) Discrimination.
(c) Sublimation.
(d) Hypodescent.

Short Answer Questions

1. The sight of which objects put Irving at ease while she was in the care of a black professional in her early 20s?

2. How many distinct groups of white mothers did Irving identity at the playgrounnd?

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

4. The activity at the end of Chapter 17: My Good People asks the reader to give reasons why they never believed that they could take which action in relation to racism?

5. In what year did Dr. McIntosh write an essay called "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" (86)?

(see the answer key)

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