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

2. 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?
(a) Personification.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Litotes.

3. 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) Wilkerson personifies the fog in an analogy that demonstrates how tradition "clouds" an understanding of present realities.
(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) It foreshadows the difficulties Wilkerson will have in gaining cooperation during her visit.

4. In "Chapter Six: The Measure of Humanity," where does Wilkerson say the term "Caucasian" came from?
(a) A German professor who thought a skull from the Caucasus Mountains was especially attractive.
(b) An eighteenth century novel about a fictional people who migrated from Central Europe to Western Europe.
(c) A Sanskrit word that originally referred not to race but to caste.
(d) A long-discredited theory about human origins in Western Russia.

5. In "Chapter Five: 'The Container We Have Built for You,'" what unusual name does Harold Hale give his daughter?
(a) Lady.
(b) Miss.
(c) Daughter.
(d) White.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Wilkerson explains on page 9, under what circumstances can mental health professionals make a diagnosis public?

2. To whom is Wilkerson referring on page 4 when she describes someone as "a no-nonsense national figure overqualified by some estimates"?

3. On page 6, Wilkerson calls a financial crisis "cataclysmic." What kind of crisis was it?

4. According to "Pillar Number Four: Purity versus Pollution," what did the United States use to "curate" its population (123)?

5. On page 11, what does Wilkerson indicate the term "evangelical voters" is code for?

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