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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 kind of committee did Irving and another preschool parent form 6 years after Irving enrolled her first child there?
(a) Safety.
(b) Discipline.
(c) Professional Development.
(d) Diversity.

2. What term describes a form of help that disempowers the aided person or group?
(a) Dysfunctional resucing.
(b) Savior syndrome.
(c) Hero worship.
(d) Messiah moment.

3. Within what type of paradigm does America currrently operate?
(a) The capitalist.
(b) The healing waters paradigm.
(c) The strength-in-numbers paradigm.
(d) The superior-inferior paradigm.

4. How many years into Irving's waking-up journey did she attend a white privilege conference?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

5. The activity at the end of Chapter 26: Surviving and Thriving asks the reader to think about a time when they were treated in what manner?
(a) Preferentially.
(b) Abominably.
(c) Suggestively.
(d) Unfairly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Irving when she demanded to know why her 19-year-old sister Diane was not being allowed to see the film A Patch of Blue?

2. The fruit from which kind of tree is used in a traditional practice described by Irving?

3. Irving uses an analogy in Chapter 8: Racial Categories that uses what physical attribute to stand in for race?

4. In which publication did an article about the shaping of the mind appear, according to Irving?

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

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