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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. 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?
(a) Discrimination.
(b) Hypodescent.
(c) Sublimation.
(d) Hyphenation.

2. Irving describes headwinds as working against the efforts of which group?
(a) Immigrants.
(b) Democrats.
(c) White people.
(d) People of color.

3. Irving's project sought to help which kind of people living in inner-city areas?
(a) The elderly.
(b) Those with mental illness.
(c) Youth.
(d) The homeless.

4. Which city does Irving use in Chapter 21: Straddling Two Worlds to stand in for an almost-exclusively white location?
(a) Honoree.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Winchester.
(d) Camby.

5. At the time of Irving's writing of Waking Up White, she had lived in a particular city for how many years?
(a) 20.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which state did Irving attend an event advertised as being "by and for people of color" (141)?

2. In Chapter 20: My Robin Hood Syndrome, Irving discusses her first project with which type of company?

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

4. The preschool Irving chose for her children required parents to pay how many dollars per year?

5. The activity at the end of Chapter 17: My Good People asks the reader to give reasons why they never believed that they could take which action in relation to racism?

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