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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. According to Wilkerson, what constituency does the Republican Party represent?
(a) People whose first concern is the sovereignty of the United States.
(b) Those who want to protect an older social order that benefits whites.
(c) Humanitarians and the marginalized.
(d) Progressives and nativists.

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

3. In "An American Untouchable," how does the high school principal in India refer to Martin Luther King'?
(a) As an "American Gandhi."
(b) As an "untouchable."
(c) As a "Negro."
(d) As a great leader.

4. In Wilkerson's anecdote about the house inspector, how does he "see past the plaster" (17)?
(a) By reading the blueprints.
(b) By using his professional experience.
(c) By using an infrared camera.
(d) By using an x-ray machine.

5. In the opening analogy of the book, what is the melting permafrost being compared to?
(a) A "silent" earthquake.
(b) The 2016 election.
(c) Denial of climate change.
(d) Racism.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the opening anecdote of the book, what escapes from the melting permafrost?

2. According to Wilkerson, who is at the top of the "ladder of humanity" created by colonists in North America?

3. As Wilkerson explains on page 9, under what circumstances can mental health professionals make a diagnosis public?

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

5. On page 16, Wilkerson says that people adjust to the "idiosyncrasies" of an old house. What is she saying that they adjust to?

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