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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 "Chapter Eleven: Dominant Group Status Threat and the Precarity of the Highest Rung," what is one factor Wilkerson points to as an explanation for "dominant group status threat" in modern America?
(a) Misinformation and propaganda spread via the Internet.
(b) Rapidly rising income among Black Americans.
(c) A decline in civil behavior in public spaces.
(d) Increased numbers of non-white immigrants.

2. In "Chapter Twelve: A Scapegoat to Bear the Sins of the World," what change in the concept of the scapegoat does Wilkerson say has occurred over time?
(a) Scapegoating is now performed by whole communities.
(b) Modern scapegoats are also blamed for the problems they are made to suffer for.
(c) Modern scapegoats are not literally sacrificed.
(d) Scapegoating is now primarily subconscious.

3. In "Chapter Twenty-Six: Turning Point and the Resurgence of Caste," what does Wilkerson say caused analysts to be taken by surprise by Trump's victory?
(a) They listened too much to overseas reactions to Trump.
(b) They did not take the economic woes of the heartland seriously.
(c) They were too limited by their own perspective.
(d) They failed to consider the impact of caste.

4. In "Chapter Seventeen: On the Early Front Lines of Caste," what is the main difference between the various works that Wilkerson discusses?
(a) The race of their authors.
(b) Their position regarding whether American does or does not have a caste system.
(c) The gender of their authors.
(d) Whether or not the authors actually had first-hand experience in the system they were writing about.

5. In the conference described in "Chapter Ten: Central Miscasting," what difficulty does Wilkerson face?
(a) Getting copies of the papers being presented.
(b) The scholars in attendance refuse to speak to her.
(c) The crowd is openly hostile to her presentation.
(d) Being stared at for sitting in front.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Chapter Five: 'The Container We Have Built for You,'" what does Harold Hale do when people knock down his mailbox?

2. In "Chapter Twelve: A Scapegoat to Bear the Sins of the World," what does Wilkerson imply is true about the American response to the 2013 Ebola outbreak?

3. In "Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Symbols of Caste," whose statue causes the controversy in Charlottesville, Virginia?

4. In "Through the Fog of Delhi to the Parallels in India and America," what is one of the main differences that Wilkerson notes between caste in America and caste in India?

5. When 20 Black people arrived in the New World on a Dutch ship in 1619, what were they classified as?

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