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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19: My Good Luck - Chapter 27: Living Into Expectations.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Irving points out in Chapter 16: Logos and Stereotypes that humans are the only creatures on earth who use which objects to make sense of their world?
(a) Maps.
(b) Symbols.
(c) Landmarks.
(d) Sounds.

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

3. Irving conceives of tailwinds as forces working toward the efforts of which group?
(a) Politicians.
(b) White people.
(c) Immigrants.
(d) People of color.

4. 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?
(a) Xenophobia.
(b) Cruelty.
(c) Cluelessness.
(d) Apathy.

5. How long did it take Irving to meet her goal of making friends less like herself?
(a) Days.
(b) Months.
(c) Years.
(d) Weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which U.S. state did an ancestor of Irving's establish New Salem Academy by applying for a land grant?

2. In Chapter 13, Irving explains that inattentional blindness also goes by which other term?

3. Kenneth Cushner's illustration of culture as an iceberg states that what percentage of culture is visible?

4. Irving tells a story about visiting what type of black professional in her early 20s?

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

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