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

2. By what decade had "pale skin become a beauty ideal for white people, making its way into European art and literature" (57)?
(a) The 1860s.
(b) The 1920s.
(c) The 1790s.
(d) The 1720s.

3. What was the first name of Dr. McIntosh, who wrote a famous essay about white privilege?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Mary.
(c) Anne.
(d) Peggy.

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

5. Irving asserts in Chapter 4: Optimism that the American Dream is accessible to whom?
(a) Nearly everyone.
(b) A select few.
(c) All.
(d) Most.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irving remembers a family member telling her that Indians "were lovely people who became" what "when they drank liquor" (15)?

2. Which member of Irving's family is featured most prominently within the events of the memoir's first chapter?

3. Which American generation is defined as having been born between the years of 1946 and 1964?

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

5. Irving states that the theory of colorblindness maintains all but which of the following within American society?

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