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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. The author asserts in Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow" that although rural counties contain only 20% of the U.S. population, what percentage of new prison construction occurs there?
(a) 40%.
(b) 60%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 70%.

2. When was Swain v. Alabama decided?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1965.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1973.

3. 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) 1865.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1870.

4. The author asserts in Chapter 4: "The Cruel Hand" that anyone convicted of a felony is automatically ineligible for public housing assistance for at least what length of time?
(a) One year.
(b) Two years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Five years.

5. What term is used in the book to describe "a traffic stop motivated not by any desire to enforce traffic laws, but instead motivated by a desire to hunt for drugs in the absence of any evidence of illegal drug activity"?
(a) "Suspicion stop."
(b) "Prevention stop."
(c) "Pretext stop."
(d) "Context stop."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did crack cocaine first emerge in poor black neighborhoods in the United States before spreading elsewhere?

2. Who wrote The Strange Career of Jim Crow?

3. When did the American Civil War begin?

4. In 2005, how many drug arrests were for possession?

5. How much money did the U.S. spend on police protection, detention, judicial, and legal activities in 2003, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Statistics?

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