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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 word does Irving define as "a collective character that describes a set of beliefs and behaviors that identify the group" (79)?
(a) Tenet.
(b) Culture.
(c) Community.
(d) Motto.

2. Irving reveals in Chapter 4: Optimism that she was born in which year?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1970.

3. Irving states in Chapter 5: Within the Walls, "If I could turn back time and rewrite the script for those years, my parents would be deft at sharing with me the realities of American history, especially" what?
(a) The history of slavery.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) The civil rights movement.
(d) Reconstruction.

4. What is the topic of the activity presented at the end of Chapter 1: What Wasn't Said?
(a) Denial.
(b) Microaggressions.
(c) Stereotypes.
(d) Privilege.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 5: Within the Walls asks readers to reconsider the definition of which term?

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

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

4. What was the last name of Irving's ancestor who established New Salem Academy by applying for a land grant?

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

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