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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. By how many votes did Donald Trump win the state of Wisconsin in the 2016 election?
(a) 45,353.
(b) 22,748.
(c) 14,634.
(d) 29,245.

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)?
(a) Isaac La Peyrere.
(b) Robert Park.
(c) Chester Pierce.
(d) John J. DiIulio.

4. What was the nickname of the boy that held a gun on the author on the school bus, as described in Chapter 6?
(a) Robot.
(b) Rat.
(c) Monster.
(d) Smurf.

5. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities or amounts?
(a) Leniency.
(b) Attribution.
(c) Exoneration.
(d) Paucity.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many students attended the high school that the author attended?

2. What nickname did the author get named in seventh and eighth grades?

3. What is the author's current middle name?

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

5. Who wrote in 1753, "I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites" (41)?

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