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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. Jared told Irving that he was stupid and that he would be going to jail by the time he had reached which age?
(a) 21.
(b) 18.
(c) 30.
(d) 13.

2. 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.

3. How many distinct groups of white mothers did Irving identity at the playgrounnd?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

4. The activity at the end of Chapter 26: Surviving and Thriving asks the reader to think about a time when they were treated in what manner?
(a) Preferentially.
(b) Unfairly.
(c) Suggestively.
(d) Abominably.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 31: Courageous Conversations, Irving provides a bulleted list of ground rules for use in which arena?

3. 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?

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

5. The preschool Irving chose for her children required parents to volunteer for one day how often?

Short Essay Questions

1. Provide evidence for the conclusion that Irving wants to provide the reader of Waking Up White with practical advice.

2. What alternative to the superior/inferior paradigm does Irving suggest in Chapter 35: If Only You'd Be More Like Me?

3. What does Irving mean in Chapter 36: The Dominant White Culture when she writes, "I never felt white; I just felt like Debby" (212)?

4. Before Irving learned about conflict resolution, how did she deal with uncomfortable feelings?

5. In what way does Irving link the themes of oppression and brutality within Chapter 34: Becomiing Multicultural?

6. How does Irving go about outlining the privilege inherent in her own life?

7. What events led up to the experience with the mirror Irving describes in Chapter 33: Perception and Fear?

8. What major mistake does Irving consider herself to have made during her project meant to serve inner city youth?

9. What did Irving learn from her experience with the mirror one year into her "waking-up process" (199)?

10. In what way does the theme of isolation arise within Chapter 25: Belonging?

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