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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 writer is attributed to the following quote from Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow": "It's respectable to tar and feather criminals, to advocate locking them up and thowing away the key. It's not racist to be against crime, even though the archetypal criminal in the media and the public imagination almost always wears Willie Horton's face"?
(a) James Forman Jr.
(b) C. Vann Woodward.
(c) John Edgar Wideman.
(d) W. E. B. Du Bois.

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

3. Whose quote opens the section "The Birth of Slavery" in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?
(a) Lerone Bennett Jr.'s.
(b) Frederick Douglass's.
(c) Martin Luther King Jr.'s.
(d) Malcolm X's.

4. One in how many black men between the ages of 20-35 was behind bars in 2006?
(a) 16.
(b) Nine.
(c) 29.
(d) 42.

5. In Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow" the author describes a speech that Barack Obama gave during his presidential campaign. Where was the speech given?
(a) The New Life Christian Science Church.
(b) The First Episcopal Church.
(c) The New Zion Church of God.
(d) The Apostolic Church of God.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was Emma Faye Stewart living when she was arrested as part of a drug sweep?

3. 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?

4. When did Bacon's Rebellion take place?

5. Who wrote the book States of Denial?

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