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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. For what period of time did "the zap factor" (92) shape Irving's behavior?
(a) Months.
(b) Weeks.
(c) Years.
(d) Days.

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

3. In Chapter 12: Icebergs, Irving uses an episode of which classic television show to illustrate the "capacity for self-reinforced thinking" (79)?
(a) Green Acres.
(b) Sanford and Son.
(c) I Love Lucy.
(d) The Jeffersons.

4. What was the first name of the woman who established New Salem Academy through the acquisition of a land grant?
(a) Mabel.
(b) Mary.
(c) Martha.
(d) Lydia.

5. What sort of profession did Kenneth Cushner hold when he thought about culture as an iceberg?
(a) A social worker.
(b) A physician.
(c) A sociologist.
(d) A psychiatrist.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what decade had "pale skin become a beauty ideal for white people, making its way into European art and literature" (57)?

2. 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?

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

4. What is NOT a way in which Irving describes the idea of whiteness remaining constant over time in Chapter 9: White Superiority?

5. What was the name of the film from which Irving learned about the GI Bill?

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