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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: "Part Six: Backlash".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the 1863 Draft Riots, what immigrant group perpetrated violence against Blacks?
(a) Germans.
(b) Italians.
(c) Irish.
(d) Chinese.

2. According to "Chapter Twenty-Five: A Change in the Script," what percentage of White voters voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012?
(a) 45% each time.
(b) 43 and 39%, respectively.
(c) 32% each time.
(d) 38 and 23%, respectively.

3. In "Chapter Twenty-Six: Turning Point and the Resurgence of Caste," whom does Wilkerson name as the most loyal voters of the Republican Party?
(a) White evangelicals.
(b) Older Americans.
(c) White business owners.
(d) The wealthiest ten percent of voters.

4. In "Chapter Fourteen: The Intrusion of Caste in Everyday Life," what does Wilkerson use Tamir Rice's story to illustrate?
(a) Whites often assume that they have authority over unrelated Black children.
(b) White bystanders often assume that they know better than Black parents.
(c) Black parents are capable of raising their own children.
(d) Black parents have good reason for being afraid for their sons.

5. In "Chapter Six: The Measure of Humanity," what does Wilkerson say we are doing when we "see" race?
(a) Participating in a self-reinforcing cycle that causes us to "see" what we expect to see.
(b) Taking in only a small number of the features that actually differentiate races.
(c) Noting arbitrary physical signs that we have been taught to read as "race."
(d) Perpetuating a system of oppression.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Symbols of Caste," what does Wilkerson say was the true purpose behind erecting Confederate monuments?

2. In "Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Price We Pay for a Caste System," what is the anecdote about physicist Lean Lederman intended to illustrate?

3. When legislation was finally adopted to limit the workday of enslaved persons, how long did their workday become?

4. What does Tushar, from the London conference in "Chapter Ten: Central Miscasting," say caused him to question the caste system?

5. In "Chapter Eleven: Dominant Group Status Threat and the Precarity of the Highest Rung," what does Wilkerson reveal about the New Deal and the Federal Housing Administration?

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