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

2. In what year did Irving take the course focused upon within Chapter 6: From Confusion to Shock?
(a) 2003.
(b) 2002.
(c) 2009.
(d) 2014.

3. Which quality did Irving's father stress above all others throughout his children's childhoods?
(a) Honesty.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Affection.
(d) Dedication.

4. In Chapter 7: The GI Bill, Irving uses the bill to underscore "the meaning of" (45) what?
(a) Passive racism.
(b) Unearned privilege.
(c) Blockbusting.
(d) Microaggression.

5. Irving reveals in Chapter 4: Optimism that she was born in which year?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1970.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The activity at the end of Chapter 26: Surviving and Thriving asks the reader to think about a time when they were treated in what manner?

3. Irving's project sought to help which kind of people living in inner-city areas?

4. At what age did Irving graduate from college, effectively ending the unexamined part of her life?

5. Irving asserts that American culture and government have always embraced the idea of America as what object?

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