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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. What does the letter P stand for in the acronym WASP?
(a) Passive.
(b) Patriotic.
(c) Privileged.
(d) Protestant.

2. In Chapter 15: The Whole Story, Irving warns the reader of the dangers associated with what types of stories?
(a) One-sided.
(b) Fictional.
(c) Ancient.
(d) Second-hand.

3. In Chapter 26: Surviving and Thriving, Irving describes Jane Elliott's experiments based around which element as a marker of status?
(a) Finger length.
(b) Hair color.
(c) Height.
(d) Eye color.

4. The preschool Irving chose for her children required parents to pay how many dollars per year?
(a) $500.
(b) $2,000.
(c) $5,000.
(d) $7,500.

5. By what decade had "pale skin become a beauty ideal for white people, making its way into European art and literature" (57)?
(a) The 1720s.
(b) The 1860s.
(c) The 1790s.
(d) The 1920s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irving recalls in Chapter 5: Within the Walls that in her childhood world, problems were deemed what?

2. Irving states that the theory of colorblindness maintains all but which of the following within American society?

3. Irving writes in Chapter 7: The GI Bill, "The GI Bill is one of the best examples of affirmative action for" (48) whom?

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

5. The subtitle of Chapter 24: Everyone is Different; Everyone Belongs refers to "the power of" (148) which element?

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