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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. Who wrote The Strange Career of Jim Crow?
(a) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(b) Loic Wacquant.
(c) Marc Mauer.
(d) C. Vann Woodward.

2. Why is Jarvious Cotton unable to vote, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) He is a slave.
(b) He is unable to pay poll taxes.
(c) He is a felon.
(d) He is illiterate.

3. When did the Supreme Court rule in United States v. Harris that the Klan Act was partially unconstitutional?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1889.

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

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) 215.
(c) 19.
(d) 93.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the CIA admit that guerilla armies it actively supported in Nicaragua were smuggling crack cocaine into the United States?

2. 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?

3. What was the dominant means of securing cheap labor in the early colonial period in America, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?

4. What does the author describe printed on a bright orange poster that opened her mind to the themes of the book in the Introduction?

5. According to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste," what "was the device employed to protect the institution of slavery and the political power of slaveholding states" when the Constitution was written?

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