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

2. 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"?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1973.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jarvious Cotton's great-grandfather die?

2. In the Introduction, the author attests that how many people in Germany are in prison for every 100,000 adults and children?

3. When did California pass Proposition 184, the Three Strikes Law?

4. 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?

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

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