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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. Besides the caste systems in India and the United States, which other caste system does Wilkerson say that she will focus on?
(a) Yuan China.
(b) Nazi Germany.
(c) Apartheid South Africa.
(d) The Nigerian Osu System.

2. 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) The degree of segregation.
(b) Privileges that increase with increasing "degree of Whiteness."
(c) The size of the highest caste.
(d) Racial absolutism.

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

4. At what famous Alabama bridge did the police violently attack peaceful protesters on their way to Montgomery?
(a) The Benson Bridge.
(b) The Seven Mile Bridge.
(c) The New River Gorge Bridge.
(d) The Edmund Pettus Bridge.

5. On page 68 of "Chapter Six: The Measure of Humanity," what does Wilkerson say is "one of the most contentious and misunderstood" words in American culture?
(a) Discrimination.
(b) Racism.
(c) Race.
(d) Caste.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Wilkerson in "The Second Pillar: Heritability," what happened to Forest Whitaker at a Manhattan Deli?

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

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

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?

5. To what Supreme Court case does Wilkerson allude in her "Pillar Number Four: Purity versus Pollution" story about the shoemaker who sued for the right to ride in the white car of the train?

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