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1. In the story Irving uses to open Chapter 1: What Wasn't Said, how old was she at the time?

2. Irving remembers a family member telling her that Indians "were lovely people who became" what "when they drank liquor" (15)?

3. Which member of Irving's family is featured most prominently within the events of the memoir's first chapter?

4. What is the topic of the activity presented at the end of Chapter 1: What Wasn't Said?

5. In Chapter 2: Family Values, Irving compares her childhood to paintings created by which famous artist?

6. Irving describes growing up in an affluent suburb of which American city?

7. How many siblings does Irving have?

8. Irving describes her childhood neighborhood as being "almost exclusively" (24) what?

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