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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. For what position did Irving first apply within the school system, as reported in Chapter 25: Belonging?
(a) Vice principal.
(b) Second grade teacher.
(c) Custodian.
(d) Teacher's assistant.

2. In what part of the country did Irving grow up, according to Chapter 5: Within the Walls?
(a) Southwest.
(b) New England.
(c) Northwest.
(d) Midwest.

3. What is NOT a way in which Irving describes the idea of whiteness remaining constant over time in Chapter 9: White Superiority?
(a) Distinct.
(b) Superior.
(c) Fluid.
(d) Immutable.

4. Irving states that skin color symbolism plus favoritism plus power equals which element?
(a) Inequity.
(b) Sexism.
(c) Privilege.
(d) Systemic racism.

5. Irving remarks on the recent push to use the term "enslaved African" (107) in lieu of which term?
(a) Indentured servant.
(b) Slave.
(c) Immigrant.
(d) African immigrant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which city does Irving use in Chapter 21: Straddling Two Worlds to stand in for an almost-exclusively white location?

3. Irving discusses the acronym WASP in Chapter 3: Race Versus Class, stating that the W stands for which word?

4. Irving remembers a family member telling her that Indians "were lovely people who became" what "when they drank liquor" (15)?

5. The sight of which objects put Irving at ease while she was in the care of a black professional in her early 20s?

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