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

2. Which quality did Irving's father stress above all others throughout his children's childhoods?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Affection.
(d) Dedication.

3. In Chapter 3: Race Versus Class, Irving states that "Understanding" what, "regardless of class, is key to understanding racism" (26)?
(a) Privilege.
(b) Assimilation.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Whiteness.

4. Irving describes growing up in an affluent suburb of which American city?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Boston.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) New York City.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The activity at the end of Chapter 17: My Good People asks the reader to give reasons why they never believed that they could take which action in relation to racism?

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. At which institution was Dr. McIntosh teaching when she wrote an influential essay about white privilege?

4. Irving remarks on the recent push to use the term "enslaved African" (107) in lieu of which term?

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

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