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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 did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaw?
(a) Slavery in the Southern United States.
(b) Discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
(c) Discrimination against African Americans in relation to voting rights.
(d) Segregation in public schools and buildings.

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

3. 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 ten.
(c) One in four.
(d) One in five.

4. How did Jarvious Cotton's great-grandfather die?
(a) He was beaten to death by the Ku Klux Klan.
(b) He was killed in an automobile accident.
(c) He was beaten to death by fellow prisoners.
(d) He was killed in a factory accident.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Jarvious Cotton unable to vote, according to the author in the Introduction?

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?

3. 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?

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

5. What does "caste" refer to?

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