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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7: "Part Seven: Awakening" and "Epilogue: A World Without Caste".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Chapter Eleven: Dominant Group Status Threat and the Precarity of the Highest Rung," Wilkerson discusses biases that occur without thought. What is this kind of bias called?
(a) Unconscious bias.
(b) Autonomic bias.
(c) Subconscious bias.
(d) Automatic bias.

2. In "Pillar Number Six: Dehumanization and Stigma," what is the best definition of the word "stigma"?
(a) The practice of separating or segregating something believed to be polluted.
(b) A marking believed to indicate evil, corruption, etc.
(c) A set of negative beliefs attached to a particular characteristic, action, object, etc.
(d) A cultural system of disguised aggressions.

3. 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) Race.
(c) Caste.
(d) Racism.

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

5. In "A Long-Running Play and the Emergence of Caste in America," where does Wilkerson say that the American caste system was born?
(a) In England.
(b) In the American South.
(c) In the Virginia colony.
(d) In South Carolina.

Short Answer Questions

1. What departure from legal precedent was made in the Virginia Assembly's decision that the children of enslaved women should also be considered slaves?

2. In "Chapter Thirty: Shedding the Sacred Thread," where does the Brahmin encounter and learn to respect Dalits?

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

4. In "Chapter Twenty-Five: A Change in the Script," what Lyndon Johnson prediction about Southern voters does Wilkerson relate?

5. In "Chapter Twenty-Six: Turning Point and the Resurgence of Caste," what mistake does Wilkerson believe Democrats make with regard to their most loyal voters?

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