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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. What is NOT a way in which Irving describes the idea of whiteness remaining constant over time in Chapter 9: White Superiority?
(a) Superior.
(b) Fluid.
(c) Immutable.
(d) Distinct.

2. Irving states in Chapter 7: The GI BIll that "In the end, a mere" how many "percent of black GIs were able to access the bill's offer of free education" (46)?
(a) 12.
(b) 18.
(c) 21.
(d) 4.

3. For what period of time did "the zap factor" (92) shape Irving's behavior?
(a) Years.
(b) Days.
(c) Weeks.
(d) Months.

4. What was the name of the film from which Irving learned about the GI Bill?
(a) Race: The Power of a Community.
(b) Race: The Power of a Culture.
(c) Race: The Power of a Dream.
(d) Race: The Power of an Illusion.

5. In which U.S. state did an ancestor of Irving's establish New Salem Academy by applying for a land grant?
(a) Florida.
(b) Maine.
(c) Ohio.
(d) California.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first name of the woman who established New Salem Academy through the acquisition of a land grant?

2. Which word does Irving define as "a collective character that describes a set of beliefs and behaviors that identify the group" (79)?

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

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

5. Which American generation is defined as having been born between the years of 1946 and 1964?

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