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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface and Introduction.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The author asserts in the Introduction that one in how many young African American men are currently under the control of the criminal justice system--in prison, in jail, on probation, or on parole?
(a) One in ten.
(b) One in four.
(c) One in three.
(d) One in five.

3. Where did crack cocaine first emerge in poor black neighborhoods in the United States before spreading elsewhere?
(a) New York.
(b) Tuscon.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Chicago.

4. According to the author in the Introduction, how many people are in prison in the United States per 100,000?
(a) 560.
(b) 750.
(c) 500.
(d) 250.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jarvious Cotton's great-grandfather die?

2. Why is Jarvious Cotton unable to vote, according to the author in the Introduction?

3. When did California pass Proposition 184, the Three Strikes Law?

4. What does "caste" refer to?

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

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