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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. In Chapter 29: Intent and Impact, Irving compares a swimming pool to which other body of water?
(a) A pond.
(b) A river.
(c) An ocean.
(d) A lake.

2. Which word does Irving define as "a collective character that describes a set of beliefs and behaviors that identify the group" (79)?
(a) Motto.
(b) Culture.
(c) Tenet.
(d) Community.

3. Within what type of paradigm does America currrently operate?
(a) The healing waters paradigm.
(b) The capitalist.
(c) The superior-inferior paradigm.
(d) The strength-in-numbers paradigm.

4. In Chapter 18: Color-Blind, Irving states that she decided early in life that racism was what sort of conversation topic?
(a) Volatile.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Unseemly.
(d) Boring.

5. In Chapter 4: Optimism, Irving finds significance in the fact that she did not live through which historical event?
(a) The Korean War.
(b) The Jonestown Flood.
(c) The Red Scare.
(d) The Great Depression.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 26: Surviving and Thriving, Irving describes Jane Elliott's experiments based around which element as a marker of status?

3. Irving states that American culture and government have always rejected the idea of America as what object?

4. Irving states, "I never felt white; I just felt like" (209) what?

5. 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?

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