The New Jim Crow Quizzes

The New Jim Crow Quiz 1

By Kristen Osborne-Bartucca · Last reviewed September 11, 2016

1 What year was the book written?

2015

2012

2010

2000
2 The book can best be categorized as ___?

journalism

fiction

nonfiction

poetry
3 Alexander's background is in ___?

psychology

law

art

sociology
4 Jarvious Cotton cannot ___?

vote

get a lawyer

get a job

afford his prison debt
5 The new caste system has to do with ___?

class

gender

religion

race
6 The poster Alexander saw said ___ was the new Jim Crow.

the Gulf War

the Drug War

housing discrimination

inner-city crime
7 Who is barred from full participation in society?

Women

Rural dwellers

Poor people

Criminals
8 All of the following are issues people who were incarcerated may face EXCEPT for which choice?

No right to serve on juries

Difficulty getting food stamps or public housing

No right to vote

No right to bring a lawsuit against someone
9 Which president officially started the War on Drugs?

Clinton

Nixon

Reagan

Bush
10 Which of the following statements is FALSE?

Minorities are predominately affected by mass incarceration.

In some cities half of all young black men are under correctional control.

Our penal system is unparalleled in world history.

Blacks use and sell drugs more than whites do.
11 After one system of racial control ends, ___?

there are no more

another more subtle one takes its place

one that looks just like it takes its place

there is a reckoning and major sea change
12 Slaves replaced ___?

hired laborers

Native Americans

indentured servants

artisans
13 The language of the Constitution is deliberately ___?

about race

discriminatory

explicit

colorblind
14 The Jim Crow laws ___?

emerged after Reconstruction ended

were mostly symbolic

kept slaves in their place

were instituted in both North and South
15 Which minor party first welcomed blacks then ignored them?

Greenback Labor

Know-Nothing

Free Soil

Populist
16 Jim Crow is seen to end with ___?

Brown v. Board of Education

the Civil Rights Act of 1964

WWI

the 15th Amendment
17 Martin Luther King Jr. wanted to shift the Civil Rights Movement to one about ___?

gender

social class

human rights

religion
18 As a backlash to Civil Rights in the 1960s, the rhetoric began to center on ___?

welfare

social class

personal responsibility

law and order
19 White elites exploit the resentments and fears of ___?

poor blacks

rich blacks

all poor people

poor whites
20 What was compared to the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"?

Alcohol

Crack

Marijuana

Guns
21 Crack cocaine did all of the following EXCEPT for which choice?

Militarized police

Enacted mandatory minimums

Expanded funding for public housing

Expanded the use of the death penalty for drug crimes
22 Which president does Alexander say created the current racial undercaste?

Reagan

Bush

Clinton

Nixon
23 What is the gateway to the undercaste and thus the New Jim Crow?

Blackness

Mass incarceration

Poor education

Poverty
24 What types of convictions exploded the incarceration rates?

Assault

Drug

Robbery

Violent crime
25 Who has helped facilitate the drug war by denying most Fourth Amendment protections?

Congress

State legislatures

The Supreme Court

The President

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