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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 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.

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

3. 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 men.
(d) African American women.

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

5. When was the major conference held called "Why We Can't Wait: Reversing the Retreat on Civil Rights"?
(a) June, 2004.
(b) July, 2001.
(c) October, 2007.
(d) March, 2008.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the time she worked at the ACLU, Michelle Alexander's focus shifted from employment discrimination to what focus?

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

3. 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?

4. Where did crack cocaine first emerge in poor black neighborhoods in the United States before spreading elsewhere?

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

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