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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. 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 reference to a dowager aunt is an example of what literary technique?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Simile.
(d) Synechdoche.

2. In "Chapter Twenty-Three: Shock Troops on the Borders of Hierarchy," Wilkerson explains a complicated "solution" to a problem presented by free Black passengers on steamboats of the nineeenth century. What was this problem?
(a) How and when to feed them.
(b) Where they would be allowed to sleep.
(c) Where they would bathe and use the bathroom.
(d) At what times they would be allowed on deck.

3. In what year did Alabama repeal its law against interracial marriage?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1866.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1920.

4. In "Chapter Thirteen: The Insecure Alpha and the Purpose of an Underdog," what is Wilkerson arguing about the role of the "omega" wolf, at the bottom of the pack hierarchy?
(a) That since humans are not canines, it is not relevant to human societies.
(b) That it does not actually exist in natural wolf groupings.
(c) It performs a valuable and necessary role.
(d) That humans should treat people at the bottom of the human "pack" with more kindness and respect.

5. According to Wilkerson in "The Second Pillar: Heritability," what distinguishes "caste" from "class"?
(a) Caste is permanent and inescapable.
(b) Caste is not related to economics.
(c) Class cannot be inherited.
(d) Class is not a status marker.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "A Long-Running Play and the Emergence of Caste in America," what does the Nigerian playwright tell Wilkerson about Blacks in Africa?

2. In "Chapter Twenty-Six: Turning Point and the Resurgence of Caste," whom does Wilkerson name as the most loyal voters of the Republican Party?

3. In "Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Symbols of Caste," Wilkerson mentions the "Lost Cause." What does this term refer to?

4. In "Pillar Number Six: Dehumanization and Stigma," what is the best definition of the word "stigma"?

5. In "Chapter Seventeen: On the Early Front Lines of Caste," what is the main difference between the various works that Wilkerson discusses?

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