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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface and Introduction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "caste" refer to?
(a) A system of dividing society into racial classes.
(b) A system of dividing society into hereditary classes.
(c) A system of dividing society into economic classes.
(d) A system of dividing society into educational classes.

2. What question does the author say the book explores in Chapter 1?
(a) "How do we face and address the past?"
(b) "Why are we here?"
(c) "How did we get here?"
(d) "Where do we go next?"

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?
(a) Slavery, poverty, and educational oppression.
(b) Slavery, voting rights, and the War on Drugs.
(c) Slavery, economic inequality, and injustice.
(d) Slavery, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration.

4. 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?
(a) "One's character."
(b) "One's income."
(c) "One's race."
(d) One's history."

5. Who was the executive director of the Sentencing Project when the book was written?
(a) Marc Mauer.
(b) Jason Alexander.
(c) Richard Roth.
(d) Andrew Stabler.

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. 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?

3. When did California modify the Three Strikes Law with Proposition 36?

4. When did the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals release a recommendation that "no new institutions for adults should be build and existing institutions for juveniles should be closed"?

5. When was the major conference held called "Why We Can't Wait: Reversing the Retreat on Civil Rights"?

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