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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. Which quality did Irving's father stress above all others throughout his children's childhoods?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Dedication.
(c) Affection.
(d) Honesty.

2. Irving states that skin color symbolism plus favoritism plus power equals which element?
(a) Privilege.
(b) Inequity.
(c) Systemic racism.
(d) Sexism.

3. 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?
(a) Xenophobia.
(b) Cruelty.
(c) Cluelessness.
(d) Apathy.

4. Irving uses an analogy in Chapter 8: Racial Categories that uses what physical attribute to stand in for race?
(a) Eye color.
(b) Hair color.
(c) Foot length.
(d) Finger length.

5. Irving conceives of tailwinds as forces working toward the efforts of which group?
(a) White people.
(b) Politicians.
(c) Immigrants.
(d) People of color.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which member of Irving's family is featured most prominently within the events of the memoir's first chapter?

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

3. Much of Irving's learning about racial divides in education came from working in what type of position?

4. What sort of literary device does Irving use to stress the verbs "avoid" and "perpetuate" in relation to the "zap factor" (92)?

5. At what age did Irving graduate from college, effectively ending the unexamined part of her life?

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