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

2. According to Wilkerson's explanation on page 9, why did Democrats hesitate to impeach Trump?
(a) Many had investments in Trump businesses.
(b) Fear of retribution from Trump himself.
(c) The evidence was unclear.
(d) Fear of backlash from his base.

3. According to Wilkerson, who is at the top of the "ladder of humanity" created by colonists in North America?
(a) Christians.
(b) White men.
(c) Northern Europeans.
(d) English Protestants.

4. In the opening anecdote of the book, what escapes from the melting permafrost?
(a) Nuclear waste.
(b) Anthrax.
(c) Mercury.
(d) SARS-CoV-2.

5. 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) Synechdoche.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Metaphor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which leading Black intellectual corresponded with Bhimrao Ambedkar about race in America?

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

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

4. Besides the caste systems in India and the United States, which other caste system does Wilkerson say that she will focus on?

5. In "The Vitals of History," what does Wilkerson compare an honest and rigorous study of history to?

(see the answer key)

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