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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) 2.
(b) 0.
(c) 10.
(d) 1.

2. In Chapter 30: My Good People, Irving tries to rectify her concept of herself as a good person with her certainty that she has also been displaying which other quality?
(a) Cluelessness.
(b) Cruelty.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Xenophobia.

3. Irving quotes Betsy Leondar-Wright in Chapter 3: Race Versus Class, writing, "When it comes to culture, the only thing we all have in common is that we have one and that" (28) what?
(a) It seals our fates.
(b) It conquers our fears.
(c) It is complex.
(d) It shapes us.

4. The activity at the end of Chapter 26: Surviving and Thriving asks the reader to think about a time when they were treated in what manner?
(a) Suggestively.
(b) Abominably.
(c) Unfairly.
(d) Preferentially.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Irving conceives of tailwinds as forces working toward the efforts of which group?

2. Irving remarks that when she was Jared's age, she had already decided that she would be taking which action someday?

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

4. Irving describes her childhood neighborhood as being "almost exclusively" (24) what?

5. Much of Irving's learning about racial divides in education came from working in what type of position?

(see the answer key)

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