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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 Constitutional Amendment prohibits states from denying citizens due process and "equal protection of the law"?
(a) The 15th Amendment.
(b) The 14th Amendment.
(c) The 12th Amendment.
(d) The 13th Amendment.

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

3. During the time she worked at the ACLU, Michelle Alexander's focus shifted from employment discrimination to what focus?
(a) Criminal justice reform.
(b) Tax reform.
(c) Education reform.
(d) Affirmative action.

4. What was the dominant means of securing cheap labor in the early colonial period in America, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?
(a) Native American slavery.
(b) White slavery.
(c) Indentured servitude.
(d) Feudalism.

5. 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"?
(a) "Blacks."
(b) "Indians."
(c) "Savages."
(d) "Natives."

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. When did the American Civil War begin?

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 group of people is the focus of The New Jim Crow, according to the author in her Introduction?

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