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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. What was the name of the film from which Irving learned about the GI Bill?
(a) Race: The Power of a Community.
(b) Race: The Power of a Dream.
(c) Race: The Power of an Illusion.
(d) Race: The Power of a Culture.

2. The activity at the end of Chapter 9: White Superiority asks readers to explain how they feel about which term?
(a) Caucasian.
(b) Racist.
(c) Systemic.
(d) Beautiful.

3. Irving describes her childhood neighborhood as being "almost exclusively" (24) what?
(a) Asian.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Latinx.

4. Irving reveals in Chapter 4: Optimism that she was born in which year?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1980.

5. Irving remembers a family member telling her that Indians "were lovely people who became" what "when they drank liquor" (15)?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Apathetic.
(c) Foolish.
(d) Amorous.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age did Irving graduate from college, effectively ending the unexamined part of her life?

2. Irving discusses the acronym WASP in Chapter 3: Race Versus Class, stating that the W stands for which word?

3. Irving describes in Chapter 7: The GI BIll the way in which she came to view which object from her childhood in a negative light?

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

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

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