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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author states in her Introduction, "Conversations about class are resisted in part because there is a tendency to imagine that one's class reflects upon" what?
(a) "One's character."
(b) "One's income."
(c) One's history."
(d) "One's race."

2. When was the major conference held called "Why We Can't Wait: Reversing the Retreat on Civil Rights"?
(a) October, 2007.
(b) July, 2001.
(c) June, 2004.
(d) March, 2008.

3. Who wrote Slavery by Another Name?
(a) Loic Wacquant.
(b) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(c) C. Vann Woodward.
(d) Douglas Blackmon.

4. In the Urban League's 1990 report, "The State of Black America," it stated, "There is at least one concept that must be recognized if one is to see the pervasive and insidious nature of the drug problem for the African American community. Though difficult to accept, that is the concept of" what?
(a) "Genocide."
(b) "Racism."
(c) "Confidentiality."
(d) "Poverty."

5. What term became ascribed to American Indians as a way of justifying their eradication, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?
(a) "Indians."
(b) "Blacks."
(c) "Savages."
(d) "Natives."

Short Answer Questions

1. What Constitutional Amendment prohibits states from denying citizens due process and "equal protection of the law"?

2. When did the Supreme Court rule in United States v. Harris that the Klan Act was partially unconstitutional?

3. Where did crack cocaine first emerge in poor black neighborhoods in the United States before spreading elsewhere?

4. When did California modify the Three Strikes Law with Proposition 36?

5. Who described The Strange Career of Jim Crow as the "historical bible of the Civil Rights Movement"?

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