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

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?
(a) "Genocide."
(b) "Poverty."
(c) "Confidentiality."
(d) "Racism."

3. When did Ronald Reagan officially announce the War on Drugs?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1984.

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

5. 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) 1973.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1990.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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