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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many times did Irving visit the inner-city neighborhood where she hoped to help a certain population with her project?
(a) 2.
(b) 10.
(c) 0.
(d) 1.

2. What term describes a form of help that disempowers the aided person or group?
(a) Hero worship.
(b) Messiah moment.
(c) Dysfunctional resucing.
(d) Savior syndrome.

3. How old was Irving when she demanded to know why her 19-year-old sister Diane was not being allowed to see the film A Patch of Blue?
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 13.

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) Finger length.
(c) Height.
(d) Hair color.

5. In Chapter 32: Getting Over Myself, Irving speaks to those experiencing which symptom as a result of considering a courageous conversation?
(a) Hives.
(b) Tremors.
(c) Lethargy.
(d) Jaundice.

6. Irving discusses an article that revolves around which element's ability to shape the mind?
(a) Ethnicity.
(b) Language.
(c) Race.
(d) Political life.

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

8. What emotion does Irving now feel toward the group who approached her to explain intent and effect?
(a) Resentment.
(b) Anger.
(c) Indebtedness.
(d) Compassion.

9. In Chapter 20: My Robin Hood Syndrome, Irving discusses her first project with which type of company?
(a) A paper company.
(b) A rideshare company.
(c) A tech company.
(d) A dance company.

10. What kind of stores found themselves unable to keep up with demand in the wake of Barack Obama's election to the presidency?
(a) Shoe.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Ammunition.
(d) Liquor.

11. Irving's discussion of a particular fruit reminds her of how what type of forces had shaped her?
(a) Cultural.
(b) Patriarchal.
(c) Religious.
(d) Unseen.

12. How many times had Irving seen herself as the Other by the time she had a significant encounter with herself one winter morning?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 0.

13. What event does Irving use as a means of illustrating the lack of a level playing field in America?
(a) A foot race.
(b) A birthday party.
(c) A picnic.
(d) A funeral.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Irving states, "I never felt white; I just felt like" (209) what?

2. What kind of test is the Myers-Briggs test, as revealed in Chapter 35: If Only You'd Be More Like Me?

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

4. What trait does Irving name as her husband Bruce's most prominent one?

5. The fruit from which kind of tree is used in a traditional practice described by Irving?

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