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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: "Part Three: The Eight Pillars of Caste".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Chapter Five: 'The Container We Have Built for You,'" what does Harold Hale do when people knock down his mailbox?
(a) Complains to the police.
(b) Resets it, in concrete.
(c) Forms a neighborhood watch committee.
(d) Moves to a safer neighborhood.

2. How many American states had laws officially prohibiting marriage between Blacks and whites?
(a) 41.
(b) 26.
(c) 50.
(d) 12.

3. In "Chapter Six: The Measure of Humanity," where does Wilkerson say that the idea of race began?
(a) In colonial India.
(b) In Ancient Greece and Rome.
(c) During the Moorish invasion of Spain.
(d) In the transatlantic slave trade.

4. In "Pillar Number Seven: Terror as Enforcement, Cruelty as a Means of Control," what common misunderstanding of the slave system in America does Wilkerson dispute?
(a) That many slaveholders were cruel just because they could be.
(b) That brutality against slaves was the result of whites' fear of slave rebellion.
(c) That slaves were too "valuable" to be mistreated.
(d) That many slaves entered into consensual relationships with slaveholders.

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 constant watchfulness.
(b) With careful thoroughness.
(c) With great speed.
(d) With brute force.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was decided at the conference depicted in the opening of "The Nazis and the Acceleration of Caste"?

2. Which of the following is the traditional Indian word for "caste"?

3. In "A Long-Running Play and the Emergence of Caste in America," what does Wilkerson say Americans want to dismiss as a "sad, dark chapter" of American history (43)?

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

5. According to Wilkerson in In "Chapter Six: The Measure of Humanity," what do social scientists say combines with racial bias to produce racism?

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