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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: What Wasn't Said - Chapter 9: White Superiority.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Irving uses an analogy in Chapter 8: Racial Categories that uses what physical attribute to stand in for race?
(a) Foot length.
(b) Eye color.
(c) Hair color.
(d) Finger length.

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

3. In Chapter 7: The GI Bill, Irving uses the bill to underscore "the meaning of" (45) what?
(a) Unearned privilege.
(b) Blockbusting.
(c) Passive racism.
(d) Microaggression.

4. Chapter 5: Within the Walls asks readers to reconsider the definition of which term?
(a) Privilege.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Rich.
(d) Exclusive.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Irving recalls in Chapter 5: Within the Walls that in her childhood world, problems were deemed what?

2. The activity at the end of Chapter 9: White Superiority asks readers to explain how they feel about which term?

3. Irving reveals in Chapter 4: Optimism that she was born in which year?

4. Much of Irving's learning about racial divides in education came from working in what type of position?

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

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