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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: "The Cruel Hand".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What fraction of the young black male population in the United States today are unemployed, according to the author in Chapter 4: "The Cruel Hand"?
(a) Nearly one-half.
(b) Nearly two-thirds.
(c) Nearly one-fourth.
(d) Nearly one-third.

2. Whose quote opens the section "The Birth of Slavery" in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?
(a) Lerone Bennett Jr.'s.
(b) Frederick Douglass's.
(c) Martin Luther King Jr.'s.
(d) Malcolm X's.

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

4. In what year did a federal grand jury determine that the Ku Klux Klan was a "terrorist organization" and issue hundreds of indictments for crimes of violence and terrorism?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1865.

5. Who wrote Slavery by Another Name?
(a) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(b) Loic Wacquant.
(c) Douglas Blackmon.
(d) C. Vann Woodward.

Short Answer Questions

1. Federal law provides that a child-support enforcement officer can garnish up to what percent of an individual's wages for child support?

2. Where was Emma Faye Stewart living when she was arrested as part of a drug sweep?

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?

4. About what percentage of offenders and ex-offenders are high school dropouts, according to the author in Chapter 4: "The Cruel Hand"?

5. When was the first year that a black person ever sat on a jury in the United States?

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