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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. When was The Strange Career of Jim Crow published?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1945.

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

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

4. What state supreme court issued a landmark decision in the case of Ruffin v. Commonwealth?
(a) The Virginia Supreme Court.
(b) The Mississippi Supreme Court.
(c) The Arkansas Supreme Court.
(d) The Louisiana Supreme Court.

5. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaw?
(a) Discrimination against African Americans in relation to voting rights.
(b) Segregation in public schools and buildings.
(c) Discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
(d) Slavery in the Southern United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Supreme Court rule in United States v. Harris that the Klan Act was partially unconstitutional?

2. In the Introduction, the author attests that how many people in Germany are in prison for every 100,000 adults and children?

3. 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?

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

5. During the time she worked at the ACLU, Michelle Alexander's focus shifted from employment discrimination to what focus?

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