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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. The author states in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste," "Any candid observer of American racial history must acknowledge that racism is highly" what?
(a) "Rigid."
(b) "Obtuse."
(c) "Lamentable."
(d) "Adaptable."

2. Where was the conflict labor camp the Parchman Farm established?
(a) Texas.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Mississippi.

3. 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) 215.
(c) 116.
(d) 93.

4. Who wrote Slavery by Another Name?
(a) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(b) Loic Wacquant.
(c) Douglas Blackmon.
(d) C. Vann Woodward.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the CIA admit that guerilla armies it actively supported in Nicaragua were smuggling crack cocaine into the United States?

2. To whom is the following quote that opens Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste" attributed: "The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery"?

3. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaw?

4. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

5. 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?

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