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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 37: Boxes and Ladders - Chapter 46: Whole Again.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the topic of the activity presented at the end of Chapter 1: What Wasn't Said?
(a) Denial.
(b) Stereotypes.
(c) Privilege.
(d) Microaggressions.

2. Irving states in Chapter 37: Boxes and Ladders that in the text's next few chapters, she will examine some of her most "stubborn, hard-drive" (218) what?
(a) Choices.
(b) Laws.
(c) Doubts.
(d) Assumptions.

3. Irving describes noticing that most children of color at her workplace used which method of getting to school?
(a) Bus.
(b) Parent vehicle.
(c) By foot.
(d) Train.

4. Irving refers to Father Gregory Boyle's book called what "on the Heart" (271)?
(a) Water.
(b) Tattoos.
(c) Heavy.
(d) Paint.

5. What type of item was used in the activity during which white participants became emotional?
(a) Plants.
(b) Candies.
(c) Note cards.
(d) Coins.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irving's discussion of a particular fruit reminds her of how what type of forces had shaped her?

2. What term does Irving name as having taken on a negative connotation in her head somewhere along the way?

3. In Chapter 39: Equality Starts With Equity, Irving discusses having to adjust her understanding of which concept?

4. Irving reports that she finally came to undersand the adage, "You can only change" (208) what?

5. Irving notes that during her waking-up process, she found that she had to "be careful not to box and rank" (218) whom?

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