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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 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) Indentured servitude.
(b) Native American slavery.
(c) Feudalism.
(d) White slavery.

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

3. When was The Strange Career of Jim Crow published?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1940.

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

5. What question does the author say the book explores in Chapter 1?
(a) "How do we face and address the past?"
(b) "Why are we here?"
(c) "How did we get here?"
(d) "Where do we go next?"

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In the Introduction, the author attests that how many people in Germany are in prison for every 100,000 adults and children?

4. 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"?

5. The author asserts in the Introduction that one in how many young African American men are currently under the control of the criminal justice system--in prison, in jail, on probation, or on parole?

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