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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. 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.

2. What term describes a form of help that disempowers the aided person or group?
(a) Dysfunctional resucing.
(b) Savior syndrome.
(c) Hero worship.
(d) Messiah moment.

3. In what part of the country did Irving grow up, according to Chapter 5: Within the Walls?
(a) Southwest.
(b) Midwest.
(c) Northwest.
(d) New England.

4. At the time of Irving's writing of Waking Up White, she had lived in a particular city for how many years?
(a) 10.
(b) 20.
(c) 30.
(d) 5.

5. Irving found that which element creates a state of fear, which then puts people into survival mode?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Deception.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Powerlessness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of literary device does Irving use to stress the verbs "avoid" and "perpetuate" in relation to the "zap factor" (92)?

2. Irving discusses the acronym WASP in Chapter 3: Race Versus Class, stating that the W stands for which word?

3. How much management experience did Irving have when she was hired by a broadcasting station after college?

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

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

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