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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. 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"?
(a) Martin Luther King Jr.
(b) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) Malcolm X.

2. What does "caste" refer to?
(a) A system of dividing society into economic classes.
(b) A system of dividing society into hereditary classes.
(c) A system of dividing society into racial classes.
(d) A system of dividing society into educational classes.

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

4. When was the major conference held called "Why We Can't Wait: Reversing the Retreat on Civil Rights"?
(a) July, 2001.
(b) October, 2007.
(c) June, 2004.
(d) March, 2008.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does the author say the book explores in Chapter 1?

2. Who described The Strange Career of Jim Crow as the "historical bible of the Civil Rights Movement"?

3. How did Jarvious Cotton's great-grandfather die?

4. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

5. When did Ronald Reagan officially announce the War on Drugs?

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