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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 Six: Dehumanization and Stigma," Wilkerson explains that enslaved people were not allowed to cry as their families were separated. What is this meant to serve as an example of?
(a) Stigma.
(b) Minstrelsy.
(c) Mockery.
(d) Dehumanization.

2. In "Chapter Fourteen: The Intrusion of Caste in Everyday Life," why does Wilkerson include the story of Corey Lewis and the children he was supervising?
(a) It is an example of whites assuming they have the right to supervise Black children.
(b) It is an example of white policing of Blacks doing ordinary everyday things.
(c) It is an example of police violence toward Black Americans.
(d) It is an example of Black parents trying to protect their sons from the dangers of being Black in America.

3. In "Chapter Twenty-Two: The Stockholm Syndrome and the Survival of the Subordinate Class," what does the Black bailiff do when the white killer of a Black man begins crying about her conviction?
(a) Tells her to shut up and stop crying.
(b) Shoves her as she is being escorted from the court.
(c) Comforts her by stroking her hair.
(d) Tells her that it will be okay and calls her "honey."

4. In "A Long-Running Play and the Emergence of Caste in America," where does Wilkerson say that the American caste system was born?
(a) In the Virginia colony.
(b) In the American South.
(c) In South Carolina.
(d) In England.

5. In "Chapter Eleven: Dominant Group Status Threat and the Precarity of the Highest Rung," which group of Americans does Wilkerson say is facing declining life expectancy?
(a) Young, educated whites.
(b) Middle-aged, less-educated whites.
(c) Middle-aged, less-educated Blacks.
(d) Young, educated Blacks.

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 what year did Alabama repeal its law against interracial marriage?

3. In "Chapter Twenty-Four: Cortisol, Telomeres, and the Lethality of Caste," what are the "telomeres" Wilkerson talks about?

4. In "Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Symbols of Caste," Wilkerson says that the tarp-covered statue looks like "a giant chifforobe" (334). What is a "chifforobe"?

5. When legislation was finally adopted to limit the workday of enslaved persons, how long did their workday become?

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