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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. When did Bacon's Rebellion take place?
(a) 1692.
(b) 1720.
(c) 1723.
(d) 1676.

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

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

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

5. Who wrote The Strange Career of Jim Crow?
(a) Loic Wacquant.
(b) C. Vann Woodward.
(c) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(d) Marc Mauer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term became ascribed to American Indians as a way of justifying their eradication, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?

2. What does "caste" refer to?

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

4. What years comprised the Reconstruction Era?

5. Where was the conflict labor camp the Parchman Farm established?

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