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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 28: I Am the Elephant - Chapter 36: The Dominant White Culture.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the maxim, "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" (114)?
(a) Edmund Spenser.
(b) Noel Coward.
(c) Anne Bradstreet.
(d) Edmund Burke.

2. The fruit from which kind of tree is used in a traditional practice described by Irving?
(a) Calabash.
(b) Persimmon.
(c) Fig.
(d) Cherry.

3. For what period of time did "the zap factor" (92) shape Irving's behavior?
(a) Months.
(b) Weeks.
(c) Years.
(d) Days.

4. Which object was involved in Irving's realizations about her own appearance?
(a) A top.
(b) A swing.
(c) A mirror.
(d) A pencil.

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?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 20.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irving advocates for which narrative to become one among many telling the story of America's history?

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

3. In Chapter 3: Race Versus Class, Irving states that "Understanding" what, "regardless of class, is key to understanding racism" (26)?

4. Between 1820 and 1920, how many million people with light skin immigrated from non-Anglo countries to the United States?

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

(see the answer key)

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