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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 remembers a family member telling her that Indians "were lovely people who became" what "when they drank liquor" (15)?
(a) Apathetic.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Foolish.
(d) Amorous.

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

3. Irving describes noticing the perpetual presence of which children sitting on benches in the principal's office?
(a) White boys.
(b) Black boys.
(c) Kindergarteners.
(d) Latinx girls.

4. What was the first name of the woman who established New Salem Academy through the acquisition of a land grant?
(a) Martha.
(b) Lydia.
(c) Mary.
(d) Mabel.

5. Jared told Irving that he was stupid and that he would be going to jail by the time he had reached which age?
(a) 21.
(b) 13.
(c) 30.
(d) 18.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Irving, Emily's second-grade performance was based on which war?

2. In Chapter 12: Icebergs, Irving uses an episode of which classic television show to illustrate the "capacity for self-reinforced thinking" (79)?

3. Irving asserts in Chapter 4: Optimism that the American Dream is accessible to whom?

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

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

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