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

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

3. Which American generation is defined as having been born between the years of 1946 and 1964?
(a) Generation Y.
(b) Baby Boomers.
(c) Generation X.
(d) The Lost Generation.

4. In what year did Irving take the course focused upon within Chapter 6: From Confusion to Shock?
(a) 2003.
(b) 2002.
(c) 2009.
(d) 2014.

5. In Chapter 15: The Whole Story, Irving warns the reader of the dangers associated with what types of stories?
(a) Fictional.
(b) One-sided.
(c) Second-hand.
(d) Ancient.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the story Irving uses to open Chapter 1: What Wasn't Said, how old was she at the time?

2. In Chapter 12: Icebergs, Irving uses an episode of which classic television show to illustrate the "capacity for self-reinforced thinking" (79)?

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

4. When Irving was not yet ready to examine her own white privilege, which other quality of her identity did she decide to start with?

5. At which institution was Dr. McIntosh teaching when she wrote an influential essay about white privilege?

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