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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 Culture.
(b) Race: The Power of a Dream.
(c) Race: The Power of an Illusion.
(d) Race: The Power of a Community.

2. Irving writes in Chapter 7: The GI Bill, "The GI Bill is one of the best examples of affirmative action for" (48) whom?
(a) People of color.
(b) Poor people.
(c) White people.
(d) Wealthy people.

3. Irving discusses the acronym WASP in Chapter 3: Race Versus Class, stating that the W stands for which word?
(a) White.
(b) Weathered.
(c) Wealthy.
(d) Women.

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

5. 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 Jonestown Flood.
(c) The Great Depression.
(d) The Red Scare.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irving recalls in Chapter 5: Within the Walls that in her childhood world, problems were deemed what?

2. Irving uses an analogy in Chapter 8: Racial Categories that uses what physical attribute to stand in for race?

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

4. The activity at the end of Chapter 9: White Superiority asks readers to explain how they feel about which term?

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

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