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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10: The Melting Pot - Chapter 18: Color Blind.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Irving states that American culture and government have always rejected the idea of America as what object?
(a) A mosaic.
(b) A melting pot.
(c) A city on a hill.
(d) A utopia.

2. Irving describes growing up in an affluent suburb of which American city?
(a) Boston.
(b) New York City.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Philadelphia.

3. 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?
(a) Reconstruction.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) The history of slavery.
(d) The civil rights movement.

4. At which institution was Dr. McIntosh teaching when she wrote an influential essay about white privilege?
(a) William and Mary.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Wellesley.
(d) Yale.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Irving describes the limitations of which text in Chapter 14: Zap!?

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

3. Who wrote the maxim, "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" (114)?

4. Kenneth Cushner's illustration of culture as an iceberg states that what percentage of culture is visible?

5. How many different categories does Betsy Leondar-Wright identify when she provides "a way of thinking about class" (30)?

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