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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. What sort of literary device does Irving use to stress the verbs "avoid" and "perpetuate" in relation to the "zap factor" (92)?
(a) Repetition.
(b) Simile.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

2. In which U.S. state did an ancestor of Irving's establish New Salem Academy by applying for a land grant?
(a) Florida.
(b) Ohio.
(c) California.
(d) Maine.

3. In Chapter 18: Color-Blind, Irving states that she decided early in life that racism was what sort of conversation topic?
(a) Unseemly.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Boring.
(d) Volatile.

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

5. By what decade had "pale skin become a beauty ideal for white people, making its way into European art and literature" (57)?
(a) The 1790s.
(b) The 1720s.
(c) The 1860s.
(d) The 1920s.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4: Optimism, Irving finds significance in the fact that she did not live through which historical event?

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

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

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

5. Irving uses an analogy in Chapter 8: Racial Categories that uses what physical attribute to stand in for race?

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