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

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

3. 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?
(a) The history of slavery.
(b) Reconstruction.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) The civil rights movement.

4. In what part of the country did Irving grow up, according to Chapter 5: Within the Walls?
(a) Midwest.
(b) New England.
(c) Northwest.
(d) Southwest.

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

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 4: Optimism asks the reader to think about "major economic, political, demographic, and pop culture trends" (35) that occurred how many years before their birth, through the age of 20?

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

4. Irving asserts in Chapter 4: Optimism that the American Dream is accessible to whom?

5. In what year did Irving take the course focused upon within Chapter 6: From Confusion to Shock?

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