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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. During the time she worked at the ACLU, Michelle Alexander's focus shifted from employment discrimination to what focus?
(a) Education reform.
(b) Criminal justice reform.
(c) Affirmative action.
(d) Tax reform.

2. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaw?
(a) Discrimination against African Americans in relation to voting rights.
(b) Discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
(c) Segregation in public schools and buildings.
(d) Slavery in the Southern United States.

3. What group of people is the focus of The New Jim Crow, according to the author in her Introduction?
(a) Latinos and other immigrants.
(b) African American men.
(c) African American women.
(d) White American men.

4. In the Urban League's 1990 report, "The State of Black America," it stated, "There is at least one concept that must be recognized if one is to see the pervasive and insidious nature of the drug problem for the African American community. Though difficult to accept, that is the concept of" what?
(a) "Poverty."
(b) "Racism."
(c) "Genocide."
(d) "Confidentiality."

5. 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?
(a) One's history."
(b) "One's income."
(c) "One's race."
(d) "One's character."

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When did the American Civil War end by proclamation?

4. How did Jarvious Cotton's great-grandfather die?

5. When did California pass Proposition 184, the Three Strikes Law?

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