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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. In what year did Dr. McIntosh write an essay called "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" (86)?
(a) 2011.
(b) 2000.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1988.

2. What does the letter P stand for in the acronym WASP?
(a) Protestant.
(b) Privileged.
(c) Patriotic.
(d) Passive.

3. In Chapter 12: Icebergs, Irving uses an episode of which classic television show to illustrate the "capacity for self-reinforced thinking" (79)?
(a) I Love Lucy.
(b) Green Acres.
(c) Sanford and Son.
(d) The Jeffersons.

4. Five people of color and how many white men approached Irving to explain the difference between intent and effect?
(a) 5.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

5. Much of Irving's learning about racial divides in education came from working in what type of position?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Accountant.
(c) Psychologist.
(d) Teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much management experience did Irving have when she was hired by a broadcasting station after college?

2. Irving asserts that letting go of her self-image ultimately made her feel which way?

3. Irving discusses the process of freeing herself from the restraints of what type of etiquette?

4. Irving notes in Chapter 42: Solidarity and Accountability that tiny acts of what "keep alive in [her] a sense of purpose" (241)?

5. For what position did Irving first apply within the school system, as reported in Chapter 25: Belonging?

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