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

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

3. Irving describes her childhood neighborhood as being "almost exclusively" (24) what?
(a) Asian.
(b) White.
(c) Latinx.
(d) Black.

4. Irving asserts in Chapter 4: Optimism that the American Dream is accessible to whom?
(a) Nearly everyone.
(b) A select few.
(c) Most.
(d) All.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By what decade had "pale skin become a beauty ideal for white people, making its way into European art and literature" (57)?

3. What is NOT a way in which Irving describes the idea of whiteness remaining constant over time in Chapter 9: White Superiority?

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

5. In what part of the country did Irving grow up, according to Chapter 5: Within the Walls?

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