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

2. In Chapter 3: Race Versus Class, Irving states that "Understanding" what, "regardless of class, is key to understanding racism" (26)?
(a) Whiteness.
(b) Privilege.
(c) Assimilation.
(d) Wealth.

3. How many siblings does Irving have?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

4. 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) Distinct.
(c) Superior.
(d) Fluid.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Irving describes growing up in an affluent suburb of which American city?

4. In the story Irving uses to open Chapter 1: What Wasn't Said, how old was she at the time?

5. 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)?

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