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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. At which institution was Dr. McIntosh teaching when she wrote an influential essay about white privilege?
(a) Yale.
(b) William and Mary.
(c) Wellesley.
(d) Princeton.

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

3. Kenneth Cushner's illustration of culture as an iceberg states that what percentage of culture is visible?
(a) 10.
(b) 60.
(c) 20.
(d) 40.

4. What is the topic of the activity presented at the end of Chapter 1: What Wasn't Said?
(a) Privilege.
(b) Denial.
(c) Stereotypes.
(d) Microaggressions.

5. How long did it take Irving to meet her goal of making friends less like herself?
(a) Years.
(b) Days.
(c) Months.
(d) Weeks.

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

3. Irving describes noticing that most children of color at her workplace used which method of getting to school?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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