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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was the Military Cooperation with Law Enforcement Act passed?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1981.

3. 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) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

4. 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, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration.
(b) Slavery, poverty, and educational oppression.
(c) Slavery, voting rights, and the War on Drugs.
(d) Slavery, economic inequality, and injustice.

5. The author cites Marilyn Frye as having made a metaphor for the systemic racism toward African Americans. What metaphor is used?
(a) A mountain.
(b) A fishing net.
(c) A mask.
(d) A birdcage.

Short Answer Questions

1. One in how many black men between the ages of 20-35 was behind bars in 2006?

2. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

3. When was the first year that a black person ever sat on a jury in the United States?

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

5. Where did Nathaniel Bacon live as a property owner?

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