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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 quotes Betsy Leondar-Wright in Chapter 3: Race Versus Class, writing, "When it comes to culture, the only thing we all have in common is that we have one and that" (28) what?
(a) It conquers our fears.
(b) It shapes us.
(c) It seals our fates.
(d) It is complex.

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. Irving states in Chapter 7: The GI BIll that "In the end, a mere" how many "percent of black GIs were able to access the bill's offer of free education" (46)?
(a) 4.
(b) 21.
(c) 12.
(d) 18.

4. In Chapter 4: Optimism, Irving finds significance in the fact that she did not live through which historical event?
(a) The Korean War.
(b) The Great Depression.
(c) The Red Scare.
(d) The Jonestown Flood.

5. In Chapter 6: From Confusion to Shock, Irving describes moving to the city of Cambridge in which state after college?
(a) California.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Massachusetts.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 3: Race Versus Class, Irving states that "Understanding" what, "regardless of class, is key to understanding racism" (26)?

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

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

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