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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Irving advocates for which narrative to become one among many telling the story of America's history?
(a) Quantitative.
(b) Qualitative.
(c) Dominant.
(d) Marginalized.

2. In Chapter 18: Color-Blind, Irving states that she decided early in life that racism was what sort of conversation topic?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Boring.
(c) Volatile.
(d) Unseemly.

3. Irving remembers a family member telling her that Indians "were lovely people who became" what "when they drank liquor" (15)?
(a) Foolish.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Apathetic.
(d) Amorous.

4. Kenneth Cushner's illustration of culture as an iceberg states that what percentage of culture is visible?
(a) 60.
(b) 40.
(c) 10.
(d) 20.

5. 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.

6. What is the topic of the activity presented at the end of Chapter 1: What Wasn't Said?
(a) Microaggressions.
(b) Privilege.
(c) Stereotypes.
(d) Denial.

7. Irving points out in Chapter 16: Logos and Stereotypes that humans are the only creatures on earth who use which objects to make sense of their world?
(a) Symbols.
(b) Landmarks.
(c) Maps.
(d) Sounds.

8. Irving states that American culture and government have always rejected the idea of America as what object?
(a) A city on a hill.
(b) A utopia.
(c) A mosaic.
(d) A melting pot.

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

10. What term is used to describe the rule in which people of mixed races in America are assigned the identity of the race considered inferior by the dominant white culture?
(a) Hyphenation.
(b) Sublimation.
(c) Discrimination.
(d) Hypodescent.

11. The activity at the end of Chapter 17: My Good People asks the reader to give reasons why they never believed that they could take which action in relation to racism?
(a) Fight.
(b) Perpetuate.
(c) Address.
(d) Dissolve.

12. In which U.S. state did an ancestor of Irving's establish New Salem Academy by applying for a land grant?
(a) Florida.
(b) Maine.
(c) Ohio.
(d) California.

13. How many different categories does Betsy Leondar-Wright identify when she provides "a way of thinking about class" (30)?
(a) 3.
(b) 19.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

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

15. Irving writes in Chapter 7: The GI Bill, "The GI Bill is one of the best examples of affirmative action for" (48) whom?
(a) People of color.
(b) Wealthy people.
(c) White people.
(d) Poor people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Much of Irving's learning about racial divides in education came from working in what type of position?

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

3. By what decade had "pale skin become a beauty ideal for white people, making its way into European art and literature" (57)?

4. 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?

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

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