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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. What sociologist is cited in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste" as stating that each reincarnation of racial caste "is less total, less capable of encompassing and controlling the entire race"?
(a) Loic Wacquant.
(b) Martin Luther King Jr.
(c) Marc Mauer.
(d) W. E. B. Du Bois.

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

3. In what year did a federal grand jury determine that the Ku Klux Klan was a "terrorist organization" and issue hundreds of indictments for crimes of violence and terrorism?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1865.

4. Who wrote the book States of Denial?
(a) Devah Pager.
(b) C. Vann Woodward.
(c) Loic Wacquant.
(d) Stanley Cohen.

5. Who described The Strange Career of Jim Crow as the "historical bible of the Civil Rights Movement"?
(a) Martin Luther King Jr.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) W. E. B. Du Bois.

Short Answer Questions

1. The increase in the number of African American males sent to prison for drug crimes increased by what percentage between 1985 and 2005?

2. Whose quote opens the section "The Birth of Slavery" in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?

3. When was The Strange Career of Jim Crow published?

4. How many drug arrests took place nationally in 2005?

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

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