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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10: The Melting Pot - Chapter 18: Color Blind.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Irving tells a story about visiting what type of black professional in her early 20s?
(a) A dentist.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A chiropractor.
(d) An accountant.

2. How many different categories does Betsy Leondar-Wright identify when she provides "a way of thinking about class" (30)?
(a) 19.
(b) 7.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

3. When Irving was not yet ready to examine her own white privilege, which other quality of her identity did she decide to start with?
(a) Her status as a holder of a graduate degree.
(b) Her status as a mother.
(c) Her status as a woman.
(d) Her able-bodied status.

4. In Chapter 4: Optimism, Irving finds significance in the fact that she did not live through which historical event?
(a) The Red Scare.
(b) The Jonestown Flood.
(c) The Korean War.
(d) The Great Depression.

5. Between 1820 and 1920, how many million people with light skin immigrated from non-Anglo countries to the United States?
(a) 22.4.
(b) 8.3.
(c) 17.3.
(d) 2.4.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 30: My Good People, Irving tries to rectify her concept of herself as a good person with her certainty that she has also been displaying which other quality?

2. Irving recalls in Chapter 5: Within the Walls that in her childhood world, problems were deemed what?

3. Irving asserts in Chapter 4: Optimism that the American Dream is accessible to whom?

4. What does the letter P stand for in the acronym WASP?

5. In Chapter 6: From Confusion to Shock, Irving describes moving to the city of Cambridge in which state after college?

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