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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. How many times did Irving visit the inner-city neighborhood where she hoped to help a certain population with her project?
(a) 1.
(b) 10.
(c) 2.
(d) 0.

2. Irving states that the theory of colorblindness maintains all but which of the following within American society?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Silence.
(c) Tolerance.
(d) Denial.

3. At what age did Irving graduate from college, effectively ending the unexamined part of her life?
(a) 21.
(b) 23.
(c) 24.
(d) 22.

4. In Chapter 30: Feelings and the Culture of Niceness, Irving states that which element in her past caused her to face uncomfortable feelings by trying to escape from them?
(a) Discipline.
(b) Schooling.
(c) Socialization.
(d) Embarrassment.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Irving tells the reader about the vast differences between her Myers-Briggs test results and those of which other person?

2. Irving states that race has been a problem in America for how many years?

3. In Chapter 4: Optimism, Irving finds significance in the fact that she did not live through which historical event?

4. What term describes a form of help that disempowers the aided person or group?

5. Irving describes her childhood neighborhood as being "almost exclusively" (24) what?

(see the answer key)

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