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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. What Constitutional Amendment prohibits states from denying citizens due process and "equal protection of the law"?
(a) The 13th Amendment.
(b) The 14th Amendment.
(c) The 12th Amendment.
(d) The 15th Amendment.

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

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

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

5. 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?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Federalism.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Authoritarianism.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the CIA admit that guerilla armies it actively supported in Nicaragua were smuggling crack cocaine into the United States?

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

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

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

5. Who wrote Slavery by Another Name?

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