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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did California modify the Three Strikes Law with Proposition 36?
(a) 2012.
(b) 2013.
(c) 2015.
(d) 2011.

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

3. When did California pass Proposition 184, the Three Strikes Law?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1986.

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

5. The author asserts in the Introduction that one in how many young African American men are currently under the control of the criminal justice system--in prison, in jail, on probation, or on parole?
(a) One in three.
(b) One in four.
(c) One in ten.
(d) One in five.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaw?

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

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

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