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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 37: Boxes and Ladders - Chapter 46: Whole Again.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Camby.
(d) Winchester.

2. In Chapter 41: From Bystander to Ally, Irving states that when it comes to racism, there is no such thing as what?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Satisfaction.
(c) Resolution.
(d) Neutrality.

3. How old was Irving when she demanded to know why her 19-year-old sister Diane was not being allowed to see the film A Patch of Blue?
(a) 10.
(b) 13.
(c) 5.
(d) 12.

4. Irving remarks that when she was Jared's age, she had already decided that she would be taking which action someday?
(a) Going to college.
(b) Becoming a teacher.
(c) Getting married.
(d) Having children.

5. What term does Irving name as having taken on a negative connotation in her head somewhere along the way?
(a) Race.
(b) Solidarity.
(c) Responsibility.
(d) Creed.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the story Irving uses to open Chapter 1: What Wasn't Said, how old was she at the time?

2. Irving recalls in Chapter 5: Within the Walls that in her childhood world, problems were deemed what?

3. In Chapter 46: Whole Again, Irving refers back to her mother's story about which people?

4. The activity at the end of Chapter 9: White Superiority asks readers to explain how they feel about which term?

5. A woman in the film Mirrors of Privilege uses an analogy including broken glass to underscore her point about what?

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