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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What years comprised the Reconstruction Era?
(a) 1865-1877.
(b) 1864-1872.
(c) 1866-1880.
(d) 1866-1875.

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

4. When did the American Civil War begin?
(a) September 16, 1862.
(b) January 1, 1866.
(c) April 12, 1861.
(d) March 1, 1863.

5. 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) "The Drug War is the New Jim Crow."
(c) "Racism Still Exists Today."
(d) "Mass Incarceration is the New Jim Crow."

Short Answer Questions

1. The author asserts in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown" that drug offenses alone account for what fraction of the rise in the federal inmate population between 1985 and 2000?

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

3. How many people does the author say are in prison or jail for a drug offense today in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?

4. When did the CIA admit that guerilla armies it actively supported in Nicaragua were smuggling crack cocaine into the United States?

5. Who wrote The Strange Career of Jim Crow?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the circumstances of Robert Robinette's arrest described in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?

2. How do incarceration rates in the U.S. compare with those in other countries across the globe?

3. What is the Ku Klux Klan? What did the Ku Klux Klan acts dictate?

4. How does the author use Jarvious Cotton as an example in the Introduction to The New Jim Crow?

5. What does the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution declare?

6. Who declared the "War on Drugs"? When was it declared?

7. What was Operation Pipeline and what impacts did it have?

8. What did the Supreme Court case of Florida v. Bostick establish?

9. What is Federalism and what role has it played in racial oppression, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?

10. What led to the ermergence of slavery as the primary means for labor in the South?

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