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

2. During the time she worked at the ACLU, Michelle Alexander's focus shifted from employment discrimination to what focus?
(a) Affirmative action.
(b) Education reform.
(c) Tax reform.
(d) Criminal justice reform.

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

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

5. According to criminologist Peter Kraska, how many cases of flawed paramilitary raids reached the appellate level between 1989 and 2001?
(a) 620.
(b) 350.
(c) 290.
(d) 780.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose quote opens the section "The Birth of Slavery" in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?

2. What Constitutional Amendment prohibits states from denying citizens due process and "equal protection of the law"?

3. What does the author describe printed on a bright orange poster that opened her mind to the themes of the book in the Introduction?

4. What term is used in the book to describe "a traffic stop motivated not by any desire to enforce traffic laws, but instead motivated by a desire to hunt for drugs in the absence of any evidence of illegal drug activity"?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does a "consent search" refer to?

2. What was dedided in the case of California v. Acevedo?

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

4. What legislative achievements were seen in the Reconstruction Era?

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

6. How did the concept of "race" emerge in America, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?

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

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

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

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

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