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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. In which U.S. state did an ancestor of Irving's establish New Salem Academy by applying for a land grant?
(a) Florida.
(b) Ohio.
(c) California.
(d) Maine.

2. Irving describes her childhood neighborhood as being "almost exclusively" (24) what?
(a) Asian.
(b) Black.
(c) Latinx.
(d) White.

3. The subtitle of Chapter 25: Belonging states, "How my sense of belonging also allowed me to feel" (155) what?
(a) Justified.
(b) Guilty.
(c) Entitled.
(d) Blameless.

4. 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) 10.
(b) 20.
(c) 15.
(d) 5.

5. Irving states that the theory of colorblindness maintains all but which of the following within American society?
(a) Silence.
(b) Tolerance.
(c) Denial.
(d) Ignorance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which city does Irving use as an example of relative diversity in Chapter 21: Straddling Two Worlds?

2. Irving quotes Betsy Leondar-Wright in Chapter 3: Race Versus Class, writing, "When it comes to culture, the only thing we all have in common is that we have one and that" (28) what?

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

4. What sort of literary device does Irving use to stress the verbs "avoid" and "perpetuate" in relation to the "zap factor" (92)?

5. What was the first name of Dr. McIntosh, who wrote a famous essay about white privilege?

(see the answer key)

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