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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. Irving cites the vast difference in how people of color and white people relate to which institution in America?
(a) Education.
(b) Government.
(c) Taxation.
(d) Policing.

2. Irving asserts in Chapter 4: Optimism that the American Dream is accessible to whom?
(a) All.
(b) Most.
(c) Nearly everyone.
(d) A select few.

3. Irving recalls in Chapter 5: Within the Walls that in her childhood world, problems were deemed what?
(a) Private.
(b) All-consuming.
(c) Permanent.
(d) Incidental.

4. Irving describes in Chapter 7: The GI BIll the way in which she came to view which object from her childhood in a negative light?
(a) Her car.
(b) Her house.
(c) Her church.
(d) Her bicycle.

5. When Jared climbed onto the magic step described in Chapter 27: Living Into Expectations, he imagined that he had which position by the age of 25?
(a) Soccer player.
(b) Doctor.
(c) President.
(d) Football player.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irving describes growing up in an affluent suburb of which American city?

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

3. Jared told Irving that he was stupid and that he would be going to jail by the time he had reached which age?

4. What does the letter P stand for in the acronym WASP?

5. For what position did Irving first apply within the school system, as reported in Chapter 25: Belonging?

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