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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10: The Melting Pot - Chapter 18: Color Blind.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which U.S. state did an ancestor of Irving's establish New Salem Academy by applying for a land grant?
(a) Florida.
(b) California.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Maine.

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

3. In the story Irving uses to open Chapter 1: What Wasn't Said, how old was she at the time?
(a) 10.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

4. Irving advocates for which narrative to become one among many telling the story of America's history?
(a) Qualitative.
(b) Dominant.
(c) Marginalized.
(d) Quantitative.

5. Which American generation is defined as having been born between the years of 1946 and 1964?
(a) Generation Y.
(b) Baby Boomers.
(c) The Lost Generation.
(d) Generation X.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. How many million black American men fought in World War II?

4. Irving states that American culture and government have always rejected the idea of America as what object?

5. 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)?

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