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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 reveals that somewhere along the line, she was taught that dependence equals what?
(a) Weakness.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Affluence.
(d) Shame.

2. Irving refers to Father Gregory Boyle's book called what "on the Heart" (271)?
(a) Paint.
(b) Tattoos.
(c) Water.
(d) Heavy.

3. Irving states in Chapter 5: Within the Walls, "If I could turn back time and rewrite the script for those years, my parents would be deft at sharing with me the realities of American history, especially" what?
(a) The Civil War.
(b) The civil rights movement.
(c) The history of slavery.
(d) Reconstruction.

4. In Chapter 26: Surviving and Thriving, Irving describes Jane Elliott's experiments based around which element as a marker of status?
(a) Hair color.
(b) Finger length.
(c) Height.
(d) Eye color.

5. Irving describes noticing the perpetual presence of which children sitting on benches in the principal's office?
(a) Latinx girls.
(b) Black boys.
(c) White boys.
(d) Kindergarteners.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irving states that skin color symbolism plus favoritism plus power equals which element?

2. Irving quotes Betsy Leondar-Wright in Chapter 3: Race Versus Class, writing, "When it comes to culture, the only thing we all have in common is that we have one and that" (28) what?

3. The analogy depicting the difference between two elements of life in Chapter 43: From Tolerance to Engagement uses what location as a backdrop?

4. At what age did Irving graduate from college, effectively ending the unexamined part of her life?

5. At which institution was Dr. McIntosh teaching when she wrote an influential essay about white privilege?

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