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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. At what age did Irving graduate from college, effectively ending the unexamined part of her life?
(a) 23.
(b) 22.
(c) 24.
(d) 21.

2. Irving recalls in Chapter 5: Within the Walls that in her childhood world, problems were deemed what?
(a) All-consuming.
(b) Permanent.
(c) Incidental.
(d) Private.

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

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

5. 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 Civil War.
(b) The civil rights movement.
(c) The history of slavery.
(d) Reconstruction.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irving states that American culture and government have always rejected the idea of America as what object?

2. In Chapter 2: Family Values, Irving compares her childhood to paintings created by which famous artist?

3. Irving states that the theory of colorblindness maintains all but which of the following within American society?

4. Which quality did Irving's father stress above all others throughout his children's childhoods?

5. The activity at the end of Chapter 9: White Superiority asks readers to explain how they feel about which term?

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