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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: "Part Five: The Consequences of Caste".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Chapter Twenty: The Inevitable Narcissism of Caste," whose work on collective narcissism does Wilkerson discuss?
(a) Jacques Lacan.
(b) Erich Fromm.
(c) Erik Erikson.
(d) Sigmund Freud.

2. In "Chapter Five: 'The Container We Have Built for You,'" why does Harold Hale's daughter get called into her principal's office?
(a) For holding hands with a White boy.
(b) For using walkie-talkies with her friends.
(c) For telling a teacher to call her by her last name.
(d) For asking to be moved to a more advanced class.

3. What conclusion about people does Wilkerson come to in In "Chapter Nineteen: The Euphoria of Hate"?
(a) People tend to want to distance themselves from even fairly recent evil acts.
(b) Charismatic leaders are dangerous.
(c) Most people have accurate beliefs about themselves and others.
(d) Ordinary people are easily seduced by evil.

4. In "Through the Fog of Delhi to the Parallels in India and America," what is the rhetorical purpose of including the detail of the fog that Wilkerson sees when her plane lands?
(a) It foreshadows the difficulties Wilkerson will have in gaining cooperation during her visit.
(b) It symbolizes the difficulty of seeing the Indian social system clearly.
(c) Wilkerson is metaphorically challenging the reader to reason past a "fog" of propaganda.
(d) Wilkerson personifies the fog in an analogy that demonstrates how tradition "clouds" an understanding of present realities.

5. In "Chapter Eleven: Dominant Group Status Threat and the Precarity of the Highest Rung," what does Wilkerson reveal about the New Deal and the Federal Housing Administration?
(a) Although intended to help primarily Black Americans, these programs have largely served whites.
(b) Black Americans used these programs as their first "leg up" toward the middle class.
(c) They were created to help white Americans, and Blacks were largely excluded from their assistance.
(d) White American opposed them initially because they were afraid the aid would go to Blacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Pillar Number Eight: Inherent Superiority versus Inherent Inferiority," what is Wilkerson's central claim?

2. In "Chapter Twelve: A Scapegoat to Bear the Sins of the World," what does Wilkerson imply is true about the American response to the 2013 Ebola outbreak?

3. In "Chapter Twenty: The Inevitable Narcissism of Caste," what does Wilkerson say about whites who take time to consider the Black perspective?

4. In "Chapter Six: The Measure of Humanity," what does Wilkerson say we are doing when we "see" race?

5. In "Chapter Twenty-Three: Shock Troops on the Borders of Hierarchy," what solution does the flight attendant offer Wilkerson when other first class passengers seem to be making antagonistic comments about her race?

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