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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. Irving describes the course about race she took at Wheelock as having what effect on her?
(a) Breaking her open.
(b) Giving her a voice.
(c) Stopping her in her tracks.
(d) Making her cry.

2. When Jared climbed onto the magic step described in Chapter 27: Living Into Expectations, he imagined that he had which position by the age of 25?
(a) Soccer player.
(b) President.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Football player.

3. Irving tells a story about visiting what type of black professional in her early 20s?
(a) An accountant.
(b) A chiropractor.
(c) A dentist.
(d) A lawyer.

4. How old was Irving when her aunt moved to Cambridge?
(a) 16.
(b) 12.
(c) 18.
(d) 8.

5. Who wrote the maxim, "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" (114)?
(a) Anne Bradstreet.
(b) Edmund Spenser.
(c) Edmund Burke.
(d) Noel Coward.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irving states in Chapter 37: Boxes and Ladders that in the text's next few chapters, she will examine some of her most "stubborn, hard-drive" (218) what?

2. What kind of parade does Irving use as an example of exclusivity in schools?

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

4. The sight of which objects put Irving at ease while she was in the care of a black professional in her early 20s?

5. 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?

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