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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 American generation is defined as having been born between the years of 1946 and 1964?
(a) Baby Boomers.
(b) Generation Y.
(c) The Lost Generation.
(d) Generation X.

2. What term is used to describe the rule in which people of mixed races in America are assigned the identity of the race considered inferior by the dominant white culture?
(a) Discrimination.
(b) Hypodescent.
(c) Sublimation.
(d) Hyphenation.

3. What was the last name of Irving's ancestor who established New Salem Academy by applying for a land grant?
(a) Putnam.
(b) Stevens.
(c) O'Neill.
(d) White.

4. What sort of literary device does Irving use to stress the verbs "avoid" and "perpetuate" in relation to the "zap factor" (92)?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Repetition.
(c) Simile.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

5. Irving states that the theory of colorblindness maintains all but which of the following within American society?
(a) Silence.
(b) Denial.
(c) Tolerance.
(d) Ignorance.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4: Optimism, Irving finds significance in the fact that she did not live through which historical event?

2. Irving recalls in Chapter 5: Within the Walls that in her childhood world, problems were deemed what?

3. Irving remarks on the recent push to use the term "enslaved African" (107) in lieu of which term?

4. How many different categories does Betsy Leondar-Wright identify when she provides "a way of thinking about class" (30)?

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

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