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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 the CIA admit that guerilla armies it actively supported in Nicaragua were smuggling crack cocaine into the United States?
(a) 1998.
(b) 1992.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1985.

2. 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) Authoritarianism.
(d) Capitalism.

3. When was The Strange Career of Jim Crow published?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1945.

4. Who wrote The Strange Career of Jim Crow?
(a) Marc Mauer.
(b) Loic Wacquant.
(c) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(d) C. Vann Woodward.

5. What U.S. Constitutional Amendment provided that the right to vote should not be denied on account of race?
(a) The 16th Amendment.
(b) The 12th Amendment.
(c) The 15th Amendment.
(d) The 14th Amendment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Slavery by Another Name?

2. What word used in the Introduction refers to the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities?

3. What does the author describe printed on a bright orange poster that opened her mind to the themes of the book in the Introduction?

4. What group of people is the focus of The New Jim Crow, according to the author in her Introduction?

5. When did the American Civil War begin?

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