1. In "Chapter Five: 'The Container We Have Built for You,'" why does Harold Hale's daughter get called into her principal's office?
(a) For using walkie-talkies with her friends.
(b) For telling a teacher to call her by her last name.
(c) For holding hands with a White boy.
(d) For asking to be moved to a more advanced class.

2. What does Tushar, from the London conference in "Chapter Ten: Central Miscasting," say caused him to question the caste system?
(a) His own status as a Dalit.
(b) His Hindu faith.
(c) The disparity in privilege he witnessed in India.
(d) The treatment his father received by members of the highest caste.

3. In "Chapter Eleven: Dominant Group Status Threat and the Precarity of the Highest Rung," Wilkerson discusses biases that occur without thought. What is this kind of bias called?
(a) Autonomic bias.
(b) Unconscious bias.
(c) Subconscious bias.
(d) Automatic bias.

4. In "Chapter Fifteen: The Urgent Necessity of a Bottom Rung," what does Wilkerson say is the "greatest threat to a caste system" (224)?
(a) Lower-caste success.
(b) Upper-caste success.
(c) Lower-caste failure.
(d) Upper-caste failure.

5. How many American states had laws officially prohibiting marriage between Blacks and whites?
(a) 12.
(b) 26.
(c) 41.
(d) 50.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what Supreme Court case does Wilkerson allude in her "Pillar Number Four: Purity versus Pollution" story about the shoemaker who sued for the right to ride in the white car of the train?

2. To what part of history does Wilkerson explicitly link the Electoral College?

3. On page 16, Wilkerson says that people adjust to the "idiosyncrasies" of an old house. What is she saying that they adjust to?

4. What is the name of Gunnar Myrdal's 1944 study of race in America?

5. In "The Vitals of History," what does Wilkerson compare an honest and rigorous study of history to?

(see the answer key)

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