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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is attributed to the following quotation in Chapter 3: "The Color of Justice": "there is no immaculate perception"?
(a) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(b) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(c) Douglas Blackmon.
(d) C. Vann Woodward.

3. What percentage of those arrested for drunk driving in 1990 were white men?
(a) 78%.
(b) 67%.
(c) 89%.
(d) 65%.

4. What sociologist is cited in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste" as stating that each reincarnation of racial caste "is less total, less capable of encompassing and controlling the entire race"?
(a) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(b) Martin Luther King Jr.
(c) Loic Wacquant.
(d) Marc Mauer.

5. 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 history."
(b) "One's income."
(c) "One's character."
(d) "One's race."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Strange Career of Jim Crow?

2. The author states in Chapter 3: "The Color of Justice," "Human Rights Watch reported in 2000 that, in seven states, African Americans constitute" what percent "of all drug offenders sent to prison"?

3. How many African American men received a bachelor's degree from Illinois state universities in 1999?

4. How did Jarvious Cotton's great-grandfather die?

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

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