The New Jim Crow Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Michelle Alexander and Michelle McCool
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 129 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The New Jim Crow Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Michelle Alexander and Michelle McCool
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 129 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: "The Color of Justice".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When were Michael Whren and James Brown stopped by plainclothes officers and searched?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1993.

2. When was the major conference held called "Why We Can't Wait: Reversing the Retreat on Civil Rights"?
(a) March, 2008.
(b) June, 2004.
(c) October, 2007.
(d) July, 2001.

3. When did Congress, at the behest of Ronald Reagan, revise the program that provides federal aid to law enforcement, renaming it the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1986.

4. Who is attributed to the following quotation in Chapter 3: "The Color of Justice": "there is no immaculate perception"?
(a) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(b) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(c) Douglas Blackmon.
(d) C. Vann Woodward.

5. When was Batson v. Kentucky decided?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1993.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group of people is the focus of The New Jim Crow, according to the author in her Introduction?

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

3. What Constitutional Amendment prohibits states from denying citizens due process and "equal protection of the law"?

4. How old was Emma Faye Stewart when she was arrested as part of a drug sweep, according to the author in Chapter 3: "The Color of Justice"?

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

(see the answer key)

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