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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. How old was Irving when her aunt moved to Cambridge?
(a) 8.
(b) 12.
(c) 16.
(d) 18.

2. How much management experience did Irving have when she was hired by a broadcasting station after college?
(a) A little.
(b) A moderate amount.
(c) A lot.
(d) None.

3. Chapter 5: Within the Walls asks readers to reconsider the definition of which term?
(a) Privilege.
(b) Rich.
(c) Exclusive.
(d) Poverty.

4. Irving cites the vast difference in how people of color and white people relate to which institution in America?
(a) Government.
(b) Taxation.
(c) Policing.
(d) Education.

5. Irving recalls in Chapter 5: Within the Walls that in her childhood world, problems were deemed what?
(a) Incidental.
(b) Permanent.
(c) All-consuming.
(d) Private.

Short Answer Questions

1. Between 1820 and 1920, how many million people with light skin immigrated from non-Anglo countries to the United States?

2. What trait does Irving name as her husband Bruce's most prominent one?

3. Irving describes noticing the perpetual presence of which children sitting on benches in the principal's office?

4. In Chapter 4: Optimism, Irving finds significance in the fact that she did not live through which historical event?

5. In which U.S. state did an ancestor of Irving's establish New Salem Academy by applying for a land grant?

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