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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. To whom is the following quote that opens Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste" attributed: "The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery"?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) Martin Luther King Jr.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) W. E. B. Du Bois.

2. Who wrote the book States of Denial?
(a) Loic Wacquant.
(b) C. Vann Woodward.
(c) Stanley Cohen.
(d) Devah Pager.

3. How old was Emma Faye Stewart when she was arrested as part of a drug sweep, according to the author in Chapter 3: "The Color of Justice"?
(a) 35.
(b) 30.
(c) 25.
(d) 20.

4. Where did Warren McCleskey commit the crime he was accused of?
(a) Texas.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Georgia.

5. In what year was the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act passed that differentiated marijuana from other narcotics?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1986.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the first year that a black person ever sat on a jury in the United States?

2. When did the American Civil War begin?

3. When did Bacon's Rebellion take place?

4. When was the case of Yick Wo v. Hopkins decided?

5. Where was Edward Clary stopped and searched when he was 18?

(see the answer key)

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