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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19: My Good Luck - Chapter 27: Living Into Expectations.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Irving describes noticing the perpetual presence of which children sitting on benches in the principal's office?
(a) White boys.
(b) Kindergarteners.
(c) Black boys.
(d) Latinx girls.

4. 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) Sublimation.
(b) Discrimination.
(c) Hypodescent.
(d) Hyphenation.

5. Irving tells a story about visiting what type of black professional in her early 20s?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) A chiropractor.
(c) A dentist.
(d) An accountant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irving remarks that when she was Jared's age, she had already decided that she would be taking which action someday?

2. In which grade was Irving's student named Jared, whom she discusses in Chapter 27: Living Into Expectations?

3. Irving uses an analogy in Chapter 8: Racial Categories that uses what physical attribute to stand in for race?

4. What kind of parade does Irving use as an example of exclusivity in schools?

5. Who asked Irving why her black classmates were "all in the lower reading groups" (150) at school?

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