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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 "Pillar Number Five: Occupational Hierarchy: The Jatis and the Mudsill," what is the rhetorical purpose of including the Hammond quotes?
(a) It demonstrates that religious belief is incompatible with endorsement of a caste system.
(b) This is a defining historical moment that explicitly supports the chapter's central claim.
(c) This illustrates the depth of hatred that White Southerners had for the lowest caste.
(d) It bolsters Wilkerson's ethos, making the reader more receptive to her claims about India.

2. In "Chapter Fourteen: The Intrusion of Caste in Everyday Life," who follows and questions Wilkerson when she is in an airport?
(a) Two white people with no policing authority.
(b) The police.
(c) Airport security.
(d) The Drug Enforcement Agency.

3. In "Chapter Twenty-Three: Shock Troops on the Borders of Hierarchy," what solution does the flight attendant offer Wilkerson when other first class passengers seem to be making antagonistic comments about her race?
(a) They can move the other passengers into coach.
(b) They can ask the pilot to land the plane and have the passengers ejected.
(c) They can move Wilkerson into coach.
(d) Wilkerson can stand in the flight attendants' area in the front of the plane.

4. What technique does Wilkerson use for the first time in the beginning of "An Old House and an Infrared Light"?
(a) Rhetorical questions.
(b) Analogy.
(c) Anecdote.
(d) First person point of view.

5. 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 within one's own group.
(b) The fear of people from outside of one's own group.
(c) Active interest in and welcoming of new people into one's group.
(d) The practice of marrying outside one's own group.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is Wilkerson referring on page 4 when she describes someone as "a no-nonsense national figure overqualified by some estimates"?

2. In "Chapter Twenty-One: The German Girl with the Dark, Wavy Hair," what point does Wilkerson make about the relationship of the loss of the Jewish population and the chapter's titular story?

3. 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?

4. In "Chapter Seventeen: On the Early Front Lines of Caste," what is the main difference between the various works that Wilkerson discusses?

5. According to Wilkerson's explanation on page 9, why did Democrats hesitate to impeach Trump?

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