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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 30: My Good People, Irving tries to rectify her concept of herself as a good person with her certainty that she has also been displaying which other quality?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Xenophobia.
(c) Cruelty.
(d) Cluelessness.

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?
(a) It seals our fates.
(b) It conquers our fears.
(c) It is complex.
(d) It shapes us.

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

4. What is NOT a way in which Irving describes the idea of whiteness remaining constant over time in Chapter 9: White Superiority?
(a) Fluid.
(b) Superior.
(c) Distinct.
(d) Immutable.

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

6. Irving describes headwinds as working against the efforts of which group?
(a) White people.
(b) People of color.
(c) Democrats.
(d) Immigrants.

7. Irving conceives of tailwinds as forces working toward the efforts of which group?
(a) Politicians.
(b) People of color.
(c) Immigrants.
(d) White people.

8. 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) Reconstruction.
(b) The history of slavery.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) The civil rights movement.

9. Chapter 5: Within the Walls asks readers to reconsider the definition of which term?
(a) Privilege.
(b) Exclusive.
(c) Rich.
(d) Poverty.

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

11. Which member of Irving's family is featured most prominently within the events of the memoir's first chapter?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her cousin.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her aunt.

12. In Chapter 2: Family Values, Irving compares her childhood to paintings created by which famous artist?
(a) Pablo Picasso.
(b) Rembrandt.
(c) Andy Warhol.
(d) Norman Rockwell.

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

14. Irving states that the theory of colorblindness maintains all but which of the following within American society?
(a) Denial.
(b) Tolerance.
(c) Silence.
(d) Ignorance.

15. The activity at the end of Chapter 9: White Superiority asks readers to explain how they feel about which term?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Racist.
(c) Caucasian.
(d) Systemic.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 15: The Whole Story, Irving warns the reader of the dangers associated with what types of stories?

3. In what part of the country did Irving grow up, according to Chapter 5: Within the Walls?

4. Around how many Indian boarding schools at one time existed in the United States, all inspired by the Carlisle School?

5. The activity at the end of Chapter 4: Optimism asks the reader to think about "major economic, political, demographic, and pop culture trends" (35) that occurred how many years before their birth, through the age of 20?

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