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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Discrimination.
(c) Hypodescent.
(d) Sublimation.

2. When Irving was not yet ready to examine her own white privilege, which other quality of her identity did she decide to start with?
(a) Her status as a woman.
(b) Her able-bodied status.
(c) Her status as a mother.
(d) Her status as a holder of a graduate degree.

3. Irving asserts in Chapter 4: Optimism that the American Dream is accessible to whom?
(a) Nearly everyone.
(b) A select few.
(c) Most.
(d) All.

4. In Chapter 7: The GI Bill, Irving uses the bill to underscore "the meaning of" (45) what?
(a) Unearned privilege.
(b) Microaggression.
(c) Passive racism.
(d) Blockbusting.

5. How many siblings does Irving have?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

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

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

8. For what period of time did "the zap factor" (92) shape Irving's behavior?
(a) Years.
(b) Days.
(c) Weeks.
(d) Months.

9. What was the first name of the woman who established New Salem Academy through the acquisition of a land grant?
(a) Martha.
(b) Mary.
(c) Lydia.
(d) Mabel.

10. In which level of Irving's education did she learn about "white ethnics" (61)?
(a) Graduate.
(b) High school.
(c) Junior high.
(d) Undergraduate.

11. Irving states in Chapter 7: The GI BIll that "In the end, a mere" how many "percent of black GIs were able to access the bill's offer of free education" (46)?
(a) 21.
(b) 12.
(c) 18.
(d) 4.

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

13. 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?
(a) 5.
(b) 20.
(c) 10.
(d) 15.

14. Which American generation is defined as having been born between the years of 1946 and 1964?
(a) Generation Y.
(b) Baby Boomers.
(c) Generation X.
(d) The Lost Generation.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 4: Optimism, Irving finds significance in the fact that she did not live through which historical event?

3. Which member of Irving's family is featured most prominently within the events of the memoir's first chapter?

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

5. What is the topic of the activity presented at the end of Chapter 1: What Wasn't Said?

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