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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: "The Lockdown".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author describe printed on a bright orange poster that opened her mind to the themes of the book in the Introduction?
(a) "Affirmative Action is the New Jim Crow."
(b) "Racism Still Exists Today."
(c) "The Drug War is the New Jim Crow."
(d) "Mass Incarceration is the New Jim Crow."

2. When did California pass Proposition 184, the Three Strikes Law?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1994.

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

4. What percentage of all Southern elected officials were black in 1870?
(a) 5%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 15%.

5. How did Jarvious Cotton's great-grandfather die?
(a) He was killed in an automobile accident.
(b) He was beaten to death by the Ku Klux Klan.
(c) He was killed in a factory accident.
(d) He was beaten to death by fellow prisoners.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the American Civil War end by proclamation?

2. What years comprised the Reconstruction Era?

3. According to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste," what "was the device employed to protect the institution of slavery and the political power of slaveholding states" when the Constitution was written?

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

5. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

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