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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. How many times did Irving visit the inner-city neighborhood where she hoped to help a certain population with her project?
(a) 1.
(b) 0.
(c) 2.
(d) 10.

2. How many distinct groups of white mothers did Irving identity at the playgrounnd?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

3. Which word does Irving define as "a collective character that describes a set of beliefs and behaviors that identify the group" (79)?
(a) Community.
(b) Tenet.
(c) Motto.
(d) Culture.

4. Kenneth Cushner's illustration of culture as an iceberg states that what percentage of culture is visible?
(a) 10.
(b) 20.
(c) 40.
(d) 60.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Irving was not yet ready to examine her own white privilege, which other quality of her identity did she decide to start with?

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

3. In what year did Dr. McIntosh write an essay called "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" (86)?

4. What was the name of the film from which Irving learned about the GI Bill?

5. Irving remembers a family member telling her that Indians "were lovely people who became" what "when they drank liquor" (15)?

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