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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. How many people does the author say are in prison or jail for a drug offense today in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?
(a) Approximately half a million.
(b) Approximately 100,000.
(c) Approximately six million.
(d) Approximately two million.

2. When did Congress, at the behest of Ronald Reagan, revise the program that provides federal aid to law enforcement, renaming it the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1999.

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?
(a) "One's character."
(b) One's history."
(c) "One's income."
(d) "One's race."

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

5. To whom is the following quote that opens Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste" attributed: "The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery"?
(a) Martin Luther King Jr.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) W. E. B. Du Bois.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did California modify the Three Strikes Law with Proposition 36?

2. 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"?

3. Who wrote Slavery by Another Name?

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

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"?

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