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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years into her "waking-up process" (199) did Irving have the experience of seeing her appearance differently?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

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. Five people of color and how many white men approached Irving to explain the difference between intent and effect?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

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

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

6. What kind of committee did Irving and another preschool parent form 6 years after Irving enrolled her first child there?
(a) Discipline.
(b) Safety.
(c) Professional Development.
(d) Diversity.

7. According to Irving, Emily's second-grade performance was based on which war?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) The Korean War.
(c) The American Revolution.
(d) World War I.

8. Within what type of paradigm does America currrently operate?
(a) The superior-inferior paradigm.
(b) The healing waters paradigm.
(c) The capitalist.
(d) The strength-in-numbers paradigm.

9. Irving asserts that she was only able to live on what meager salary per year because she could rely on family connections and support?
(a) $36,000.
(b) $48,000.
(c) $12,000.
(d) $24,000.

10. The preschool Irving chose for her children required parents to volunteer for one day how often?
(a) Every week.
(b) Every 3 weeks.
(c) Every month.
(d) Every 2 weeks.

11. The preschool Irving chose for her children required parents to pay how many dollars per year?
(a) $2,000.
(b) $500.
(c) $5,000.
(d) $7,500.

12. At the time of Irving's writing of Waking Up White, she had lived in a particular city for how many years?
(a) 5.
(b) 20.
(c) 30.
(d) 10.

13. In Chapter 36: The Dominant White Culture, Irving shares a practice she learned about while visiting which island?
(a) Orcas.
(b) Cypress.
(c) St. John.
(d) Kauai.

14. Irving tells the reader about the vast differences between her Myers-Briggs test results and those of which other person?
(a) Emily.
(b) Bruce.
(c) Kathy.
(d) Diane.

15. In Chapter 31: Courageous Conversations, Irving provides a bulleted list of ground rules for use in which arena?
(a) Conversation.
(b) Email.
(c) Banking.
(d) Workplace.

Short Answer Questions

1. The subtitle of Chapter 34: Becoming Multicultural notes, "Learning to navigate" what kind of world "by using multiple approaches" (204)?

2. Which object was involved in Irving's realizations about her own appearance?

3. Irving's discussion of a particular fruit reminds her of how what type of forces had shaped her?

4. Irving discusses attending a workshop focused on what type of differences?

5. The subtitle of Chapter 25: Belonging states, "How my sense of belonging also allowed me to feel" (155) what?

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