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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which leading Black intellectual corresponded with Bhimrao Ambedkar about race in America?
2. As Wilkerson explains on page 9, under what circumstances can mental health professionals make a diagnosis public?
3. According to Wilkerson, who is at the top of the "ladder of humanity" created by colonists in North America?
4. In "Pillar Number Five: Occupational Hierarchy: The Jatis and the Mudsill," how does Wilkerson say North Carolina prevented Blacks from achieving economic independence?
5. According to Wilkerson in "The Second Pillar: Heritability," what distinguishes "caste" from "class"?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Pillar Number Eight: Inherent Superiority versus Inherent Inferiority," what does Wilkerson say underlies each of the first seven "pillars" she has already described?
2. In "The Hierarchy of Trace Amounts: Griffes, Marabons, and Sangmelees," what are the words "Griffes, Marabons, and Sangmelees," and what point do they illustrate?
3. What is the rhetorical purpose of including the anecdote about Willie James Howard in "Pillar Number Three: Endogamy and the Control of Marriage and Mating"?
4. In "Pillar Number Six: Dehumanization and Stigma," what similarities does Wilkerson see between the treatment of Blacks in the time of slavery and Jews entering Nazi camps?
5. Summarize the analogy Wilkerson makes between the thawing of the Siberian permafrost and the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
6. According to Wilkerson, what relationship exists between immigration or transportation to America and "becoming" white or Black?
7. Explain the titular analogy in "An Old House and an Infrared Light."
8. For what reason does Wilkerson say that race is a social concept, not a biological one?
9. According to Wilkerson in "An Old House and an Infrared Light," how are caste systems justified, and what is their real purpose?
10. According to "A Long-Running Play and the Emergence of Caste in America," what was the original justification for lifetime enslavement, and how did that justification need to change as circumstances changed?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you explore the understanding of Biblical defenses of slavery among Christians in America today; how do they reconcile these passages with a modern world that believes slavery is morally reprehensible? Cite your sources in MLA format.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you explore modern Indian beliefs about caste. To what extent are they linked to Hinduism? To what extent are they linked to rural versus urban settings? To what extent are they linked to education? How have they changed as the Indian economy has changed? Cite your sources in MLA format.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay in which you analyze Wilkerson's use of personal anecdotes in Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Your essay should be organized around a thesis that makes a claim about the rhetorical purpose and effectiveness of these anecdotes. Support your claims with evidence from the text.
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