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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. According to "Pillar Number Four: Purity versus Pollution," what makes the United States's racial hierarchy different from those in the rest of the Americas?
(a) Privileges that increase with increasing "degree of Whiteness."
(b) The size of the highest caste.
(c) Racial absolutism.
(d) The degree of segregation.

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

3. To whom is Wilkerson referring on page 4 when she describes someone as "a no-nonsense national figure overqualified by some estimates"?
(a) Hillary Clinton.
(b) Donald Trump.
(c) Bernie Sanders.
(d) Barack Obama.

4. In "Pillar Number Five: Occupational Hierarchy: The Jatis and the Mudsill," how does Wilkerson say the state of South Carolina tried to keep Blacks out of all jobs other than domestic service and farming?
(a) Through terror and social pressure.
(b) By assessing them an exorbitant fee for a license to do other work.
(c) By making it illegal for Blacks to work outside of farming and domestic service.
(d) By refusing them access to schooling.

5. In "Chapter Six: The Measure of Humanity," where does Wilkerson say the term "Caucasian" came from?
(a) An eighteenth century novel about a fictional people who migrated from Central Europe to Western Europe.
(b) A German professor who thought a skull from the Caucasus Mountains was especially attractive.
(c) A long-discredited theory about human origins in Western Russia.
(d) A Sanskrit word that originally referred not to race but to caste.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. According to "Pillar Number Five: Occupational Hierarchy: The Jatis and the Mudsill," what percentage of Blacks worked in white-collar professions during the Great Depression?

5. In "The Third Pillar: Endogamy and the Control of Marriage and Mating," what does Wilkerson imply was the reason for the prosecution of Hugh Davis?

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