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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 are the three major racialized systems of control adopted by the United States toward African Americans, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) Slavery, voting rights, and the War on Drugs.
(b) Slavery, poverty, and educational oppression.
(c) Slavery, economic inequality, and injustice.
(d) Slavery, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration.

2. When did the American Civil War end by proclamation?
(a) September 16, 1862.
(b) May 9, 1865.
(c) January 1, 1866.
(d) March 1, 1863.

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

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

5. In the Introduction, the author attests that how many people in Germany are in prison for every 100,000 adults and children?
(a) 215.
(b) 93.
(c) 116.
(d) 19.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

2. What agency arose in the Reconstruction Era that was charged with the responsibility of providing food, clothing, fuel, and other forms of assistance to former slaves?

3. The author states in her Introduction, "Conversations about class are resisted in part because there is a tendency to imagine that one's class reflects upon" what?

4. Why is Jarvious Cotton unable to vote, according to the author in the Introduction?

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

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