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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 different categories does Betsy Leondar-Wright identify when she provides "a way of thinking about class" (30)?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 19.
(d) 7.

2. For what position did Irving first apply within the school system, as reported in Chapter 25: Belonging?
(a) Teacher's assistant.
(b) Custodian.
(c) Second grade teacher.
(d) Vice principal.

3. In which U.S. state did an ancestor of Irving's establish New Salem Academy by applying for a land grant?
(a) Florida.
(b) Maine.
(c) California.
(d) Ohio.

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

5. The sight of which objects put Irving at ease while she was in the care of a black professional in her early 20s?
(a) Yelp reviews.
(b) Diplomas.
(c) Comment cards.
(d) Medals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of profession did Kenneth Cushner hold when he thought about culture as an iceberg?

2. In what year did Dr. McIntosh write an essay called "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" (86)?

3. At the time of Irving's writing of Waking Up White, she had lived in a particular city for how many years?

4. 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?

5. Chapter 5: Within the Walls asks readers to reconsider the definition of which term?

(see the answer key)

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