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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. How did Jarvious Cotton's great-grandfather die?
(a) He was beaten to death by the Ku Klux Klan.
(b) He was killed in a factory accident.
(c) He was beaten to death by fellow prisoners.
(d) He was killed in an automobile accident.

2. What word used in the Introduction refers to the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities?
(a) Authoritarian.
(b) Egalitarian.
(c) Unitarian.
(d) Utilitarian.

3. What state supreme court issued a landmark decision in the case of Ruffin v. Commonwealth?
(a) The Arkansas Supreme Court.
(b) The Mississippi Supreme Court.
(c) The Virginia Supreme Court.
(d) The Louisiana Supreme Court.

4. Where did Nathaniel Bacon live as a property owner?
(a) Bermuda.
(b) Roanoke, Virginia.
(c) Province of New Jersey.
(d) Jamestown, Virginia.

5. 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"?
(a) Indentured servitude.
(b) White slavery.
(c) Feudalism.
(d) Native American slavery.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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 percentage of all Southern elected officials were black in 1870?

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