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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 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"?
(a) Martin Luther King Jr.
(b) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(c) Loic Wacquant.
(d) Marc Mauer.

2. 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?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1865.

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

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

5. What group of people is the focus of The New Jim Crow, according to the author in her Introduction?
(a) African American women.
(b) White American men.
(c) Latinos and other immigrants.
(d) African American men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the governor that was under attack in Bacon's Rebellion?

2. Where did crack cocaine first emerge in poor black neighborhoods in the United States before spreading elsewhere?

3. 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"?

4. When was The Strange Career of Jim Crow published?

5. When was the major conference held called "Why We Can't Wait: Reversing the Retreat on Civil Rights"?

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