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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "Part One: Toxins in the Permafrost and Heat Rising All Around" .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On page 6, Wilkerson calls a financial crisis "cataclysmic." What kind of crisis was it?
(a) Creating the necessary conditions for a later event; a precondition.
(b) Protracted; drawn-out.
(c) Overblown, lacking in substance.
(d) Violent and overwhelming.

2. Besides the caste systems in India and the United States, which other caste system does Wilkerson say that she will focus on?
(a) Apartheid South Africa.
(b) The Nigerian Osu System.
(c) Yuan China.
(d) Nazi Germany.

3. Which leading Black intellectual corresponded with Bhimrao Ambedkar about race in America?
(a) Booker T. Washington.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Thurgood Marshall.
(d) William Monroe Trotter.

4. In the page 15 sentence "An old house is its own kind of devotional, a dowager aunt with a story to be coaxed out of her," the reference to a dowager aunt is an example of what literary technique?
(a) Simile.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Synechdoche.
(d) Metaphor.

5. On page 12, Wilkerson says that some contagions can only be managed with "vigilance." How is she proposing they should be managed?
(a) With great speed.
(b) With constant watchfulness.
(c) With brute force.
(d) With careful thoroughness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Gunnar Myrdal's 1944 study of race in America?

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

3. In the page 15 sentence "An old house is its own kind of devotional, a dowager aunt with a story to be coaxed out of her," the idea that the house has a story to tell is an example of what literary technique?

4. In "An American Untouchable," how does the high school principal in India refer to Martin Luther King'?

5. According to Wilkerson, what serves as a signal of rank within the American caste system?

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