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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Bacon's Rebellion take place?
(a) 1692.
(b) 1723.
(c) 1720.
(d) 1676.

3. Whose quote opens the section "The Birth of Slavery" in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?
(a) Frederick Douglass's.
(b) Martin Luther King Jr.'s.
(c) Malcolm X's.
(d) Lerone Bennett Jr.'s.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals release a recommendation that "no new institutions for adults should be build and existing institutions for juveniles should be closed"?

3. Where was the conflict labor camp the Parchman Farm established?

4. When did Ronald Reagan officially announce the War on Drugs?

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?

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