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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What state supreme court issued a landmark decision in the case of Ruffin v. Commonwealth?
(a) The Virginia Supreme Court.
(b) The Mississippi Supreme Court.
(c) The Arkansas Supreme Court.
(d) The Louisiana Supreme Court.

2. What writer for Time magazine wrote a critique of Obama's speech, as described in Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow"?
(a) Loic Wacquant.
(b) Michael Eric Dyson.
(c) C. Vann Woodward.
(d) Marc Mauer.

3. 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) 50%.
(b) 60%.
(c) 70%.
(d) 40%.

4. When did the article "Where Have the Black Men Gone" appear in Ebony magazine?
(a) March, 2011.
(b) September, 2001.
(c) December, 2006.
(d) June, 1995.

5. According to the author in Chapter 3: "The Color of Justice," white youth have about how many times the number of drug-related emergency room visits as their African American counterparts?
(a) Five times.
(b) Three times.
(c) Two times.
(d) Four times.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author asserts in The New Jim Crow that no one has more power in the criminal justice system than whom?

2. The author states in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste," "Any candid observer of American racial history must acknowledge that racism is highly" what?

3. What writer is attributed to the following quote from Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow": "It's respectable to tar and feather criminals, to advocate locking them up and thowing away the key. It's not racist to be against crime, even though the archetypal criminal in the media and the public imagination almost always wears Willie Horton's face"?

4. When did the American Civil War begin?

5. What percentage of professional black women are unmarried today, according to the author in Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow"?

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