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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: What Wasn't Said - Chapter 9: White Superiority.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Irving describes her childhood neighborhood as being "almost exclusively" (24) what?
(a) Asian.
(b) Latinx.
(c) White.
(d) Black.

2. In what year did Irving take the course focused upon within Chapter 6: From Confusion to Shock?
(a) 2014.
(b) 2009.
(c) 2003.
(d) 2002.

3. Irving states in Chapter 7: The GI BIll that "In the end, a mere" how many "percent of black GIs were able to access the bill's offer of free education" (46)?
(a) 12.
(b) 4.
(c) 21.
(d) 18.

4. In Chapter 6: From Confusion to Shock, Irving describes moving to the city of Cambridge in which state after college?
(a) California.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) Virginia.

5. In Chapter 4: Optimism, Irving finds significance in the fact that she did not live through which historical event?
(a) The Jonestown Flood.
(b) The Korean War.
(c) The Red Scare.
(d) The Great Depression.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the film from which Irving learned about the GI Bill?

2. How many siblings does Irving have?

3. Irving writes in Chapter 7: The GI Bill, "The GI Bill is one of the best examples of affirmative action for" (48) whom?

4. Irving describes in Chapter 7: The GI BIll the way in which she came to view which object from her childhood in a negative light?

5. The activity at the end of Chapter 4: Optimism asks the reader to think about "major economic, political, demographic, and pop culture trends" (35) that occurred how many years before their birth, through the age of 20?

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