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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19: My Good Luck - Chapter 27: Living Into Expectations.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Hyphenation.
(b) Discrimination.
(c) Sublimation.
(d) Hypodescent.

2. The sight of which objects put Irving at ease while she was in the care of a black professional in her early 20s?
(a) Comment cards.
(b) Diplomas.
(c) Medals.
(d) Yelp reviews.

3. When Irving was not yet ready to examine her own white privilege, which other quality of her identity did she decide to start with?
(a) Her status as a holder of a graduate degree.
(b) Her status as a mother.
(c) Her status as a woman.
(d) Her able-bodied status.

4. In which year did Irving choose a preschool for her eldest daughter?
(a) 1983.
(b) 2001.
(c) 1996.
(d) 2005.

5. By what decade had "pale skin become a beauty ideal for white people, making its way into European art and literature" (57)?
(a) The 1920s.
(b) The 1790s.
(c) The 1860s.
(d) The 1720s.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what type of broadcasting station did Irving begin working after college?

2. Irving advocates for which narrative to become one among many telling the story of America's history?

3. In Chapter 15: The Whole Story, Irving warns the reader of the dangers associated with what types of stories?

4. The subtitle of Chapter 25: Belonging states, "How my sense of belonging also allowed me to feel" (155) what?

5. Irving points out in Chapter 16: Logos and Stereotypes that humans are the only creatures on earth who use which objects to make sense of their world?

(see the answer key)

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