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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Introduction, the author attests that how many people in Germany are in prison for every 100,000 adults and children?
(a) 19.
(b) 116.
(c) 215.
(d) 93.

2. Whose quote opens the section "The Birth of Slavery" in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?
(a) Malcolm X's.
(b) Frederick Douglass's.
(c) Martin Luther King Jr.'s.
(d) Lerone Bennett Jr.'s.

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

4. Where did Nathaniel Bacon live as a property owner?
(a) Province of New Jersey.
(b) Roanoke, Virginia.
(c) Jamestown, Virginia.
(d) Bermuda.

5. Who was the governor that was under attack in Bacon's Rebellion?
(a) Lerone Bennett Jr.
(b) Loic Wacquant.
(c) George Wallace.
(d) William Berkeley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state supreme court issued a landmark decision in the case of Ruffin v. Commonwealth?

2. When did the Supreme Court rule in United States v. Harris that the Klan Act was partially unconstitutional?

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. In what year did a federal grand jury determine that the Ku Klux Klan was a "terrorist organization" and issue hundreds of indictments for crimes of violence and terrorism?

5. Who wrote The Strange Career of Jim Crow?

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