1. For what crime(s) did Warren McCleskey face the death penalty?
(a) Murder and armed robbery.
(b) Kidnapping and extortion.
(c) Serial murder.
(d) Killing a police officer.

2. What percentage of all Southern elected officials were black in 1870?
(a) 15%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 5%.
(d) 20%.

3. Where did Clifford Runoalds return home to attend the funeral of his 18-month-old daughter after he was busted in a drug sweep, according to the author in Chapter 3: "The Color of Justice"?
(a) To Bryan, Texas.
(b) To Dallas, Texas.
(c) To Little Rock, Arkansas.
(d) To Oxford, Mississippi.

4. When was the Military Cooperation with Law Enforcement Act passed?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1991.

5. In what year did a federal grand jury determine that the Ku Klux Klan was a "terrorist organization" and issue hundreds of indictments for crimes of violence and terrorism?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1880.

Short Answer 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"?

2. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

3. Where did Warren McCleskey commit the crime he was accused of?

4. How many drug arrests took place nationally in 2005?

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

(see the answer key)

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