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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 "Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Symbols of Caste," Wilkerson mentions two films that "fed the country and the world the Confederate version of the war" (335.) One is Birth of a Nation. What is the other?
(a) Shenandoah.
(b) Ride with the Devil.
(c) The Outlaw Josey Wales.
(d) Gone with the Wind.

2. In "Chapter Twenty-Five: A Change in the Script," whom does Wilkerson quote as saying that there was nothing more important than making sure that Obama did not win a second election?
(a) An Arizona governor.
(b) The leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
(c) The Republican Senate Majority Leader.
(d) The pastor of the largest evangelical church in Alabama.

3. 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 white policing of Blacks doing ordinary everyday things.
(b) It is an example of Black parents trying to protect their sons from the dangers of being Black in America.
(c) It is an example of whites assuming they have the right to supervise Black children.
(d) It is an example of police violence toward Black Americans.

4. According to Wilkerson in "The Second Pillar: Heritability," what distinguishes "caste" from "class"?
(a) Class cannot be inherited.
(b) Caste is not related to economics.
(c) Class is not a status marker.
(d) Caste is permanent and inescapable.

5. When 20 Black people arrived in the New World on a Dutch ship in 1619, what were they classified as?
(a) Merchandise.
(b) Colonists.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Indentured servants.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Defining Purity and the Constancy of the Bottom Rung," what does Wilkerson note is referred to as "the most segregated hour in America" (128)?

2. In "Chapter Twenty-Four: Cortisol, Telomeres, and the Lethality of Caste," which of the following groups does Wilkerson say tends to show more of the negative health impacts of prejudice?

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

4. In "Chapter Thirteen: The Insecure Alpha and the Purpose of an Underdog," what lesson does Wilkerson want the reader to take away from her description of wolves?

5. In "Chapter Twenty-Three: Shock Troops on the Borders of Hierarchy," what are the Black women on the wine train ejected from the train for?

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