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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: "Part Six: Backlash".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Just before the 2008 election, what mailing did many Americans receive that Wilkerson, in "Chapter Twenty-Five: A Change in the Script," says became an "inadvertent leaflet in favor of the Democrat" (312)?
(a) A solicitation for contributions by John McCain.
(b) Their quarterly statements for their retirement accounts.
(c) Notifications of layoffs and downsizing at their employers.
(d) An openly racist cartoon paid for by a Republican PAC.

2. 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) By assessing them an exorbitant fee for a license to do other work.
(b) By making it illegal for Blacks to work outside of farming and domestic service.
(c) By refusing them access to schooling.
(d) Through terror and social pressure.

3. What fact does Wilkerson offer in "Chapter Twenty-Six: Turning Point and the Resurgence of Caste" to refute the common idea that economic insecurity cause people to vote for Trump?
(a) Clinton won among non-White voters.
(b) Clinton won among voters in the lowest economic bracket.
(c) Clinton won the popular vote.
(d) Clinton won among Whites with no college degree.

4. To what part of history does Wilkerson explicitly link the Electoral College?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Reconstruction.
(c) The Jim Crow South.
(d) Colonization.

5. In "Chapter Twenty-Eight: Democracy on the Ballot," what term does Wilkerson introduce for the period between Reconstruction and WWII?
(a) Jim Crow.
(b) The Nadir.
(c) The Long Shadow.
(d) The Segregation Era.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Chapter Fourteen: The Intrusion of Caste in Everyday Life," who follows and questions Wilkerson when she is in an airport?

2. Where does the word "caste" come from?

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

4. Besides the caste systems in India and the United States, which other caste system does Wilkerson say that she will focus on?

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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