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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. The author asserts in Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow," "All racial caste systems, not just mass incarceration, have been supported by" what?
(a) "Racial bias."
(b) "Affirmative action."
(c) "Racial indifference."
(d) "The white community."

2. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) January 1, 1864.
(b) January 1, 1866.
(c) January 1, 1865.
(d) January 1, 1863.

3. How many drug arrests took place nationally in 2005?
(a) 3.5 million.
(b) 1 million.
(c) 2.5 million.
(d) 1.5 million.

4. Who was the governor that was under attack in Bacon's Rebellion?
(a) Loic Wacquant.
(b) Lerone Bennett Jr.
(c) William Berkeley.
(d) George Wallace.

5. Who is cited in Chapter 4: "The Cruel Hand" as having said, "In this brave new world, punishment for the original offense is no longer enough; one's debt to society is never paid"?
(a) Douglas Blackmon.
(b) William Berkeley.
(c) Lerone Bennett Jr.
(d) Jeremy Travis.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Swain v. Alabama decided?

2. When did the American Civil War begin?

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

4. The quote from Frederick Douglass that opens Chapter 4: "The Cruel Hand" was a part of a statement on behalf of delegates to the National Colored Convention held when?

5. Where is the See Forever charter school for juvenile offenders?

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