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

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

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

4. In Chapter 18: Color-Blind, Irving states that she decided early in life that racism was what sort of conversation topic?
(a) Unseemly.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Volatile.
(d) Boring.

5. Much of Irving's learning about racial divides in education came from working in what type of position?
(a) Psychologist.
(b) Accountant.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what part of the country did Irving grow up, according to Chapter 5: Within the Walls?

3. Kenneth Cushner's illustration of culture as an iceberg states that what percentage of culture is visible?

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

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

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