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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. What is the best definition of "endogamy" as used in "The Third Pillar: Endogamy and the Control of Marriage and Mating"?
(a) The practice of marrying outside one's own group.
(b) The fear of people from outside of one's own group.
(c) The practice of marrying within one's own group.
(d) Active interest in and welcoming of new people into one's group.

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

3. In "Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Symbols of Caste," what does Wilkerson describe at the site of the bunker where Hitler died?
(a) It is frequently the site of neo-Nazi rallies and demonstrations.
(b) A museum and educational center stands there now.
(c) It has been paved over and is used as an ordinary parking lot.
(d) There is a moving monument to concentration camp victims.

4. In "Chapter Sixteen: Last Place Anxiety: Packed in a Flooding Basement," what kind of stratification within America's lowest caste does Wilkerson note?
(a) Stratification based on gender.
(b) Stratification based on educational achievement.
(c) Stratification based on skin tone.
(d) Stratification based on wealth.

5. In the beginning of "Chapter Six: The Measure of Humanity," what physical characteristic is the basis for Wilkerson's imaginary caste system?
(a) Eye color.
(b) Sex.
(c) Shoe size.
(d) Height.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Pillar Number Five: Occupational Hierarchy: The Jatis and the Mudsill," what is the rhetorical purpose of including the Hammond quotes?

2. In the opening analogy of the book, what is the melting permafrost being compared to?

3. What social trend does Wilkerson link to the 2016 election?

4. In "Chapter Thirteen: The Insecure Alpha and the Purpose of an Underdog," what is Wilkerson arguing about the role of the "omega" wolf, at the bottom of the pack hierarchy?

5. Just before the 2008 election, what mailing did many Americans receive that Wilkerson, in "Chapter Twenty-Five: A Change in the Script," says became an "inadvertent leaflet in favor of the Democrat" (312)?

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