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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. Where is the See Forever charter school for juvenile offenders?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) New York City.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Washington, D.C.

2. Who is the former executive director of the National Center for Institutions and Alternatives that is cited as saying, "There are certain code words that allow you never to have to say 'race' but everybody knows that's what you mean"?
(a) Marc Mauer.
(b) C. Vann Woodward.
(c) Lerone Bennett Jr.
(d) Jerome Miller.

3. Who is the co-founder of the See Forever charter school that is quoted in Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow"?
(a) James Forman Jr.
(b) John Edgar Wideman.
(c) C. Vann Woodward.
(d) William Berkeley.

4. 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?
(a) Authoritarianism.
(b) Federalism.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Capitalism.

5. When was Swain v. Alabama decided?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1973.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1965.

Short Answer Questions

1. What U.S. Constitutional Amendment provided that the right to vote should not be denied on account of race?

2. For what crime(s) did Warren McCleskey face the death penalty?

3. Where was the conflict labor camp the Parchman Farm established?

4. Where was Edward Clary stopped and searched when he was 18?

5. The author concludes in Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow" that during the age of slavery, white plantation owners were motivated principally by what component?

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