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

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

3. On page 16, Wilkerson says that people adjust to the "idiosyncrasies" of an old house. What is she saying that they adjust to?
(a) Its positive qualities.
(b) Its layout and design.
(c) Its negative qualities.
(d) Its peculiar or unique features.

4. What is the name of Gunnar Myrdal's 1944 study of race in America?
(a) An American Dilemma.
(b) America's Race Problem.
(c) The American Web of Class and Race.
(d) Caste in America.

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) Synechdoche.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Simile.
(d) Metaphor.

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 11, what does Wilkerson indicate the term "evangelical voters" is code for?

2. On page 6, Wilkerson refers to white "preeminence." What quality is she referring to?

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

4. In Wilkerson's anecdote about the house inspector, how does he "see past the plaster" (17)?

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 idea that the house has a story to tell is an example of what literary technique?

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