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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. In what part of the country did Irving grow up, according to Chapter 5: Within the Walls?
(a) New England.
(b) Midwest.
(c) Southwest.
(d) Northwest.

2. Chapter 5: Within the Walls asks readers to reconsider the definition of which term?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Rich.
(c) Privilege.
(d) Exclusive.

3. What does the letter P stand for in the acronym WASP?
(a) Passive.
(b) Protestant.
(c) Patriotic.
(d) Privileged.

4. Irving recalls in Chapter 5: Within the Walls that in her childhood world, problems were deemed what?
(a) Permanent.
(b) Incidental.
(c) Private.
(d) All-consuming.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The activity at the end of Chapter 4: Optimism asks the reader to think about "major economic, political, demographic, and pop culture trends" (35) that occurred how many years before their birth, through the age of 20?

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

3. Much of Irving's learning about racial divides in education came from working in what type of position?

4. Irving states in Chapter 5: Within the Walls, "If I could turn back time and rewrite the script for those years, my parents would be deft at sharing with me the realities of American history, especially" what?

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

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