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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 are the three major racialized systems of control adopted by the United States toward African Americans, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) Slavery, voting rights, and the War on Drugs.
(b) Slavery, poverty, and educational oppression.
(c) Slavery, economic inequality, and injustice.
(d) Slavery, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration.

2. 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) "Genocide."
(b) "Confidentiality."
(c) "Poverty."
(d) "Racism."

3. What word used in the Introduction refers to the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities?
(a) Utilitarian.
(b) Authoritarian.
(c) Egalitarian.
(d) Unitarian.

4. Who described The Strange Career of Jim Crow as the "historical bible of the Civil Rights Movement"?
(a) Martin Luther King Jr.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) W. E. B. Du Bois.

5. What agency arose in the Reconstruction Era that was charged with the responsibility of providing food, clothing, fuel, and other forms of assistance to former slaves?
(a) The Freedman's Bureau.
(b) NAFTA.
(c) The Amerian Negro's Fund.
(d) The NAACP.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote Slavery by Another Name?

3. What percentage of all Southern elected officials were black in 1870?

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

5. According to the author in the Introduction, how many people are in prison in the United States per 100,000?

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