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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. When Irving was not yet ready to examine her own white privilege, which other quality of her identity did she decide to start with?
(a) Her status as a mother.
(b) Her status as a woman.
(c) Her able-bodied status.
(d) Her status as a holder of a graduate degree.

2. In Chapter 26: Surviving and Thriving, Irving describes Jane Elliott's experiments based around which element as a marker of status?
(a) Height.
(b) Hair color.
(c) Finger length.
(d) Eye color.

3. Irving remarks that when she was Jared's age, she had already decided that she would be taking which action someday?
(a) Becoming a teacher.
(b) Having children.
(c) Getting married.
(d) Going to college.

4. The subtitle of Chapter 34: Becoming Multicultural notes, "Learning to navigate" what kind of world "by using multiple approaches" (204)?
(a) Hateful.
(b) Collaborative.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Complex.

5. Five people of color and how many white men approached Irving to explain the difference between intent and effect?
(a) 1.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irving's discussion of a particular fruit reminds her of how what type of forces had shaped her?

2. What was the first name of Dr. McIntosh, who wrote a famous essay about white privilege?

3. What kind of test is the Myers-Briggs test, as revealed in Chapter 35: If Only You'd Be More Like Me?

4. Kenneth Cushner's illustration of culture as an iceberg states that what percentage of culture is visible?

5. What punishment did Irving earn for challenging her mother about giving Diane permission to see A Patch of Blue?

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