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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. How many siblings does Irving have?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

2. Irving states that American culture and government have always rejected the idea of America as what object?
(a) A utopia.
(b) A city on a hill.
(c) A melting pot.
(d) A mosaic.

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

4. Chapter 5: Within the Walls asks readers to reconsider the definition of which term?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Rich.
(c) Exclusive.
(d) Privilege.

5. What sort of profession did Kenneth Cushner hold when he thought about culture as an iceberg?
(a) A social worker.
(b) A psychiatrist.
(c) A sociologist.
(d) A physician.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Irving take the course focused upon within Chapter 6: From Confusion to Shock?

2. Irving asserts in Chapter 4: Optimism that the American Dream is accessible to whom?

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. At what age did Irving graduate from college, effectively ending the unexamined part of her life?

5. What sort of literary device does Irving use to stress the verbs "avoid" and "perpetuate" in relation to the "zap factor" (92)?

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