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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the first name of Dr. McIntosh, who wrote a famous essay about white privilege?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Peggy.
(c) Mary.
(d) Anne.

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

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

4. In Chapter 13, Irving explains that inattentional blindness also goes by which other term?
(a) Selective seeing.
(b) Obscured vision.
(c) Chasm.
(d) Blind spots.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The activity at the end of Chapter 9: White Superiority asks readers to explain how they feel about which term?

3. 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?

4. Irving remarks on the recent push to use the term "enslaved African" (107) in lieu of which term?

5. Irving reveals in Chapter 4: Optimism that she was born in which year?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which movement within history does Irving wish her parents had discussed with her?

2. Describe one theme present within the epigraph presented at the beginning of Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race.

3. Discuss an instance when Irving uses statistics to back up one of her points regarding racism.

4. Compare and contrast the answer Irving's mother gave her in Chapter 1: What Wasn't Said with the answer Irving believes should have been delivered.

5. What is Irving's purpose for including a lengthy explanation of her mother's overall kindness in Chapter 1: What Wasn't Said?

6. How does Irving describe the connotations associated with the quality of whiteness in Chapter 9: White Superiority?

7. How does Irving explain the difference between a mosaic and a melting pot?

8. How does Irving explore the origins of the desirability of white skin in Chapter 8: Racial Categories?

9. What message does Irving send in Chapter 3: Race Versus Class about the distinction between those two elements of society?

10. What is another term for inattentional blindness and what do the two terms mean?

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