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

2. Irving states that skin color symbolism plus favoritism plus power equals which element?
(a) Privilege.
(b) Inequity.
(c) Systemic racism.
(d) Sexism.

3. Irving describes her childhood neighborhood as being "almost exclusively" (24) what?
(a) Black.
(b) Latinx.
(c) Asian.
(d) White.

4. How many times had Irving seen herself as the Other by the time she had a significant encounter with herself one winter morning?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 0.

5. The subtitle of Chapter 25: Belonging states, "How my sense of belonging also allowed me to feel" (155) what?
(a) Justified.
(b) Entitled.
(c) Guilty.
(d) Blameless.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irving states that her favorite example of listening and its power is present in which practice?

2. Irving uses an analogy in Chapter 8: Racial Categories that uses what physical attribute to stand in for race?

3. What kind of stores found themselves unable to keep up with demand in the wake of Barack Obama's election to the presidency?

4. The subtitle of Chapter 34: Becoming Multicultural notes, "Learning to navigate" what kind of world "by using multiple approaches" (204)?

5. Irving describes headwinds as working against the efforts of which group?

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