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

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) White people.
(b) Wealthy people.
(c) Poor people.
(d) People of color.

3. Irving uses an analogy in Chapter 8: Racial Categories that uses what physical attribute to stand in for race?
(a) Finger length.
(b) Foot length.
(c) Hair color.
(d) Eye color.

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

5. 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 seals our fates.
(b) It is complex.
(c) It conquers our fears.
(d) It shapes us.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the film from which Irving learned about the GI Bill?

3. At what age did Irving graduate from college, effectively ending the unexamined part of her life?

4. Which member of Irving's family is featured most prominently within the events of the memoir's first chapter?

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

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