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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 - 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did a bipartisan group of White legislators introduce the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, according to the author in Chapter 6?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1993.

2. What case before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized Jim Crow segregation in 1896?
(a) Dred Scott v. Sandford.
(b) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(c) Powell v. Alabama.
(d) Brown v. Board of Education.

3. What does the author assert is "the heartbeat of racism, beating across ideologies, races, and nations" (14) in the Introduction?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Rage.
(d) Denial.

4. When was the film Hoop Dreams released?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1997.
(d) 1994.

5. The author states in Chapter 6 that in recent years, the University of Chicago Crime Lab worked with the One Summer Chicago Plus jobs program and found what percent "reduction in violent-crime arrests for Black youths who worked eight-week-long part-time summer jobs, compared with a control group of teens who did not" (98)?
(a) 7.4%.
(b) 43%.
(c) 34%.
(d) 56%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Roots?

2. In what field did the author's mother take on a career?

3. Who warned in 1995, "Most inner-city children grow up surrounded by teenagers and adults who are themselves deviant, delinquent or criminal. A new generation of street criminals is upon us--the youngest, biggest and baddest generation any society has ever known" (94)?

4. What was the nickname of the boy that held a gun on the author on the school bus, as described in Chapter 6?

5. What was the Latinx immigrant population in the U.S. in 2000?

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