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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. Whose quote opens the section "The Birth of Slavery" in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?
(a) Martin Luther King Jr.'s.
(b) Frederick Douglass's.
(c) Lerone Bennett Jr.'s.
(d) Malcolm X's.
2. Who described The Strange Career of Jim Crow as the "historical bible of the Civil Rights Movement"?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Martin Luther King Jr.
(d) W. E. B. Du Bois.
3. When did California pass Proposition 184, the Three Strikes Law?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1986.
4. Where was the conflict labor camp the Parchman Farm established?
(a) Texas.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Georgia.
5. 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) "The Drug War is the New Jim Crow."
(b) "Mass Incarceration is the New Jim Crow."
(c) "Affirmative Action is the New Jim Crow."
(d) "Racism Still Exists Today."
Short Answer Questions
1. What question does the author say the book explores in Chapter 1?
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"?
3. 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?
4. 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?
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"?
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