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

2. In her Introduction, the author writes, "The impact of the drug war has been astounding. In less than 30 years, the U.S penal population exploded from around 300,000 to" how many?
(a) "Almost 1 million."
(b) "More than 3 million."
(c) "More than 2 million."
(d) "Nearly 1.5 million."

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?
(a) "Racism Still Exists Today."
(b) "The Drug War is the New Jim Crow."
(c) "Affirmative Action is the New Jim Crow."
(d) "Mass Incarceration is the New Jim Crow."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What are the three major racialized systems of control adopted by the United States toward African Americans, according to the author in the Introduction?

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

5. Who was the executive director of the Sentencing Project when the book was written?

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