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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. In Chapter 6: From Confusion to Shock, Irving describes moving to the city of Cambridge in which state after college?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) California.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Massachusetts.

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

3. Who wrote the maxim, "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" (114)?
(a) Edmund Spenser.
(b) Anne Bradstreet.
(c) Edmund Burke.
(d) Noel Coward.

4. How many million black American men fought in World War II?
(a) 1.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 9.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Irving advocates for which narrative to become one among many telling the story of America's history?

2. Around how many Indian boarding schools at one time existed in the United States, all inspired by the Carlisle School?

3. In Chapter 13, Irving explains that inattentional blindness also goes by which other term?

4. Chapter 5: Within the Walls asks readers to reconsider the definition of which term?

5. Irving describes headwinds as working against the efforts of which group?

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