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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. When did Ronald Reagan officially announce the War on Drugs?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1988.

2. What was the dominant means of securing cheap labor in the early colonial period in America, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?
(a) Feudalism.
(b) Indentured servitude.
(c) White slavery.
(d) Native American slavery.

3. Why is Jarvious Cotton unable to vote, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) He is unable to pay poll taxes.
(b) He is a felon.
(c) He is a slave.
(d) He is illiterate.

4. When did the Supreme Court rule in United States v. Harris that the Klan Act was partially unconstitutional?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1895.

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"?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) Martin Luther King Jr.
(c) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

4. Who wrote Slavery by Another Name?

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

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