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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: "The Fire This Time".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Operation Pipeline launched?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1976.

2. The author states in Chapter 6: "The Fire This Time" that if we hope to return to the rate of incarceration for the 1970s, we would need to release approximately how many people that are currently behind bars today?
(a) Four out of five.
(b) Two out of five.
(c) One out of five.
(d) Three out of five.

3. In 2006, one in how many African American men was behind bars?
(a) 106.
(b) 29.
(c) 20.
(d) 14.

4. Who wrote The Audacity of Hope?
(a) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(b) George W. Bush.
(c) Bill Clinton.
(d) Barack Obama.

5. What sociologist is attributed to the following quote from Chapter 6: "The Fire This Time": "Insofar as this black middle class is an artifact of affirmative action policy, it cannot be said to be the result of autonomous workings of market forces"?
(a) Lani Guinier.
(b) Stephen Steinberg.
(c) C. Vann Woodward.
(d) Loic Wacquant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Jarvious Cotton unable to vote, according to the author in the Introduction?

3. Who was the judge assigned to Edward Clary's case in the Federal District of Missouri?

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

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

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