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

2. Why is Jarvious Cotton unable to vote, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) He is illiterate.
(b) He is unable to pay poll taxes.
(c) He is a slave.
(d) He is a felon.

3. Who described The Strange Career of Jim Crow as the "historical bible of the Civil Rights Movement"?
(a) Martin Luther King Jr.
(b) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

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?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1880.

5. 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?
(a) "Nearly 1.5 million."
(b) "More than 3 million."
(c) "More than 2 million."
(d) "Almost 1 million."

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

2. What percentage of all Southern elected officials were black in 1870?

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

4. 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?

5. What sociologist is cited in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste" as stating that each reincarnation of racial caste "is less total, less capable of encompassing and controlling the entire race"?

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