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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) Camby.
(b) Honoree.
(c) Winchester.
(d) Cambridge.

2. Irving describes in Chapter 7: The GI BIll the way in which she came to view which object from her childhood in a negative light?
(a) Her house.
(b) Her car.
(c) Her church.
(d) Her bicycle.

3. In the story Irving uses to open Chapter 1: What Wasn't Said, how old was she at the time?
(a) 10.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 3.

4. 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) Landmarks.
(c) Maps.
(d) Symbols.

5. Irving remembers a family member telling her that Indians "were lovely people who became" what "when they drank liquor" (15)?
(a) Amorous.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Foolish.
(d) Apathetic.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what type of broadcasting station did Irving begin working after college?

2. Which quality did Irving's father stress above all others throughout his children's childhoods?

3. For what position did Irving first apply within the school system, as reported in Chapter 25: Belonging?

4. In which year did Irving choose a preschool for her eldest daughter?

5. Much of Irving's learning about racial divides in education came from working in what type of position?

(see the answer key)

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