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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. How many siblings does Irving have?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

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

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

4. Irving advocates for which narrative to become one among many telling the story of America's history?
(a) Qualitative.
(b) Dominant.
(c) Marginalized.
(d) Quantitative.

5. What sort of profession did Kenneth Cushner hold when he thought about culture as an iceberg?
(a) A social worker.
(b) A physician.
(c) A sociologist.
(d) A psychiatrist.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 30: My Good People, Irving tries to rectify her concept of herself as a good person with her certainty that she has also been displaying which other quality?

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

5. Around how many Indian boarding schools at one time existed in the United States, all inspired by the Carlisle School?

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