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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. The activity at the end of Chapter 4: Optimism asks the reader to think about "major economic, political, demographic, and pop culture trends" (35) that occurred how many years before their birth, through the age of 20?
(a) 20.
(b) 15.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

2. Jared told Irving that he was stupid and that he would be going to jail by the time he had reached which age?
(a) 30.
(b) 13.
(c) 21.
(d) 18.

3. What trait does Irving name as her husband Bruce's most prominent one?
(a) His ability to engage people.
(b) His skills in mathematics.
(c) His altruism.
(d) His honesty.

4. According to Irving, Emily's second-grade performance was based on which war?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) World War I.
(c) The Korean War.
(d) The American Revolution.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many million black American men fought in World War II?

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

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

4. In Chapter 20: My Robin Hood Syndrome, Irving discusses her first project with which type of company?

5. By what decade had "pale skin become a beauty ideal for white people, making its way into European art and literature" (57)?

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