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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 28: I Am the Elephant - Chapter 36: The Dominant White Culture.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Irving was not yet ready to examine her own white privilege, which other quality of her identity did she decide to start with?
(a) Her status as a holder of a graduate degree.
(b) Her able-bodied status.
(c) Her status as a woman.
(d) Her status as a mother.

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

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

4. Around how many Indian boarding schools at one time existed in the United States, all inspired by the Carlisle School?
(a) 250.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 150.

5. Which American generation is defined as having been born between the years of 1946 and 1964?
(a) Generation Y.
(b) Generation X.
(c) Baby Boomers.
(d) The Lost Generation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which member of Irving's family is featured most prominently within the events of the memoir's first chapter?

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

3. What is NOT a way in which Irving describes the idea of whiteness remaining constant over time in Chapter 9: White Superiority?

4. Irving points out in Chapter 16: Logos and Stereotypes that humans are the only creatures on earth who use which objects to make sense of their world?

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

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