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

2. What was the dominant means of securing cheap labor in the early colonial period in America, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?
(a) White slavery.
(b) Indentured servitude.
(c) Native American slavery.
(d) Feudalism.

3. According to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste," what "was the device employed to protect the institution of slavery and the political power of slaveholding states" when the Constitution was written?
(a) Federalism.
(b) Authoritarianism.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Democracy.

4. What does "caste" refer to?
(a) A system of dividing society into educational classes.
(b) A system of dividing society into hereditary classes.
(c) A system of dividing society into economic classes.
(d) A system of dividing society into racial classes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What U.S. Constitutional Amendment provided that the right to vote should not be denied on account of race?

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

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

4. The author states in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste," "Any candid observer of American racial history must acknowledge that racism is highly" what?

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

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