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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: "Part Four: The Tentacles of Caste".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was decided at the conference depicted in the opening of "The Nazis and the Acceleration of Caste"?
(a) The Lebensraum program.
(b) The plan to exterminate German Jews.
(c) The Nuremberg Laws.
(d) Forced sterilization of Jews.

2. According to "The Trials of the Middle Castes: The Race to Get Under the White Tent," what caused the Supreme Court to rule that "White" means "Caucasian"?
(a) An Indian immigrant argued that he should be considered for citizenship.
(b) An Irish immigrant was arrested for shopping in a store signed "No Irish."
(c) A Cuban immigrant sued for the right to own property in Florida.
(d) A Japanese immigrant tried to make the case that he should be considered "White."

3. In "Chapter Fourteen: The Intrusion of Caste in Everyday Life," Wilkerson relays the story of a Black woman who visits a new white neighbor. What is the white neighbor's response?
(a) He calls the police and reports and intruder in his home.
(b) He assumes that she is trying to steal the packages that he has on his porch.
(c) He calls for his wife, because he assumes that she is there to apply for their nanny position.
(d) He assumes that she works for the dry cleaners he is expecting to pick up his clothing.

4. In "Chapter Five: 'The Container We Have Built for You,'" what does Harold Hale do when people knock down his mailbox?
(a) Complains to the police.
(b) Forms a neighborhood watch committee.
(c) Resets it, in concrete.
(d) Moves to a safer neighborhood.

5. 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 holding hands with a White boy.
(b) For using walkie-talkies with her friends.
(c) For telling a teacher to call her by her last name.
(d) For asking to be moved to a more advanced class.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Chapter Six: The Measure of Humanity," where does Wilkerson say the term "Caucasian" came from?

2. In "Chapter Fifteen: The Urgent Necessity of a Bottom Rung," what is the story of Burton Holmes and Freddie Stowers meant to illustrate?

3. According to Wilkerson in In "Chapter Six: The Measure of Humanity," what do social scientists say combines with racial bias to produce racism?

4. According to "Pillar Number Four: Purity versus Pollution," what makes the United States's racial hierarchy different from those in the rest of the Americas?

5. In "Pillar Number One: Divine Will and the Laws of Nature," what is Wilkerson's central claim?

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