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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. In Chapter 3: Race Versus Class, Irving states that "Understanding" what, "regardless of class, is key to understanding racism" (26)?
(a) Assimilation.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Whiteness.
(d) Privilege.

2. The activity at the end of Chapter 9: White Superiority asks readers to explain how they feel about which term?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Caucasian.
(c) Systemic.
(d) Racist.

3. Irving discusses the acronym WASP in Chapter 3: Race Versus Class, stating that the W stands for which word?
(a) White.
(b) Wealthy.
(c) Weathered.
(d) Women.

4. 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.

5. In what part of the country did Irving grow up, according to Chapter 5: Within the Walls?
(a) Southwest.
(b) Northwest.
(c) New England.
(d) Midwest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irving states that skin color symbolism plus favoritism plus power equals which element?

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

3. Irving remembers a family member telling her that Indians "were lovely people who became" what "when they drank liquor" (15)?

4. Between 1820 and 1920, how many million people with light skin immigrated from non-Anglo countries to the United States?

5. By what decade had "pale skin become a beauty ideal for white people, making its way into European art and literature" (57)?

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