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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. The author concludes in Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow" that during the age of slavery, white plantation owners were motivated principally by what component?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Evil.
(c) Greed.
(d) Sadism.

2. Who was the governor that was under attack in Bacon's Rebellion?
(a) George Wallace.
(b) Lerone Bennett Jr.
(c) Loic Wacquant.
(d) William Berkeley.

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

4. Who wrote The Anatomy of Racial Inequality?
(a) Glenn Loury.
(b) C. Vann Woodward.
(c) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(d) Loic Wacquant.

5. Who is the co-founder of the See Forever charter school that is quoted in Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow"?
(a) James Forman Jr.
(b) C. Vann Woodward.
(c) John Edgar Wideman.
(d) William Berkeley.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Emma Faye Stewart living when she was arrested as part of a drug sweep?

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

3. Where did Nathaniel Bacon live as a property owner?

4. Who is attributed to the following quotation in Chapter 3: "The Color of Justice": "there is no immaculate perception"?

5. Who wrote The Strange Career of Jim Crow?

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