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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 recalls in Chapter 5: Within the Walls that in her childhood world, problems were deemed what?
(a) Incidental.
(b) Permanent.
(c) All-consuming.
(d) Private.

2. 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.

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

4. How many million black American men fought in World War II?
(a) 9.
(b) 1.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

5. In what year did Irving take the course focused upon within Chapter 6: From Confusion to Shock?
(a) 2009.
(b) 2003.
(c) 2002.
(d) 2014.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 5: Within the Walls asks readers to reconsider the definition of which term?

2. Irving writes in Chapter 7: The GI Bill, "The GI Bill is one of the best examples of affirmative action for" (48) whom?

3. In Chapter 7: The GI Bill, Irving uses the bill to underscore "the meaning of" (45) what?

4. Irving states in Chapter 5: Within the Walls, "If I could turn back time and rewrite the script for those years, my parents would be deft at sharing with me the realities of American history, especially" what?

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

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