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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. Who wrote the maxim, "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" (114)?
(a) Edmund Burke.
(b) Edmund Spenser.
(c) Noel Coward.
(d) Anne Bradstreet.

2. Much of Irving's learning about racial divides in education came from working in what type of position?
(a) Psychologist.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Accountant.
(d) Lawyer.

3. When Irving was not yet ready to examine her own white privilege, which other quality of her identity did she decide to start with?
(a) Her able-bodied status.
(b) Her status as a woman.
(c) Her status as a holder of a graduate degree.
(d) Her status as a mother.

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

5. Irving describes the limitations of which text in Chapter 14: Zap!?
(a) The Golden Rule.
(b) The Bible.
(c) The Farmers' Almanac.
(d) The Declaration of Independence.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Irving states that the theory of colorblindness maintains all but which of the following within American society?

3. 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?

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

5. Irving advocates for which narrative to become one among many telling the story of America's history?

(see the answer key)

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