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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: "The Lockdown".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author describe printed on a bright orange poster that opened her mind to the themes of the book in the Introduction?
(a) "Racism Still Exists Today."
(b) "Affirmative Action is the New Jim Crow."
(c) "The Drug War is the New Jim Crow."
(d) "Mass Incarceration is the New Jim Crow."

2. 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"?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1973.

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

4. Where was Terrance Bostick traveling on a Greyhound bus when he was arrested?
(a) To Memphis.
(b) To Little Rock.
(c) To Los Angeles.
(d) To Atlanta.

5. To whom is the following quote that opens Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste" attributed: "The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery"?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) Martin Luther King Jr.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) W. E. B. Du Bois.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Strange Career of Jim Crow?

2. By the end of 2007, how many Americans were behind bars, on probation, or on parole, according to the author in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?

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

4. Between 1980 and 2000, the number of people incarcerated in prisons in the U.S. went from about 300,000 to how many?

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

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