The New Jim Crow Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

Michelle Alexander and Michelle McCool
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 129 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The New Jim Crow Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

Michelle Alexander and Michelle McCool
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 129 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface and Introduction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) "Confidentiality."
(c) "Racism."
(d) "Poverty."

2. According to the author in the Introduction, how many people are in prison in the United States per 100,000?
(a) 250.
(b) 750.
(c) 560.
(d) 500.

3. What does "caste" refer to?
(a) A system of dividing society into hereditary classes.
(b) A system of dividing society into economic classes.
(c) A system of dividing society into educational classes.
(d) A system of dividing society into racial classes.

4. When did California modify the Three Strikes Law with Proposition 36?
(a) 2015.
(b) 2012.
(c) 2013.
(d) 2011.

5. In the Introduction, the author attests that how many people in Germany are in prison for every 100,000 adults and children?
(a) 116.
(b) 19.
(c) 215.
(d) 93.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does the author say the book explores in Chapter 1?

2. In her Introduction, the author writes, "The impact of the drug war has been astounding. In less than 30 years, the U.S penal population exploded from around 300,000 to" how many?

3. When did the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals release a recommendation that "no new institutions for adults should be build and existing institutions for juveniles should be closed"?

4. 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?

5. What are the three major racialized systems of control adopted by the United States toward African Americans, according to the author in the Introduction?

(see the answer key)

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