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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: "The Color of Justice".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author asserts in The New Jim Crow that no one has more power in the criminal justice system than whom?
(a) Defendants.
(b) Prosecutors.
(c) Defense attorneys.
(d) Judges.

2. When did Bacon's Rebellion take place?
(a) 1720.
(b) 1692.
(c) 1723.
(d) 1676.

3. The author asserts in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown" that drug offenses alone account for what fraction of the rise in the federal inmate population between 1985 and 2000?
(a) Three-fourths.
(b) Two-thirds.
(c) One-third.
(d) One-half.

4. How did Jarvious Cotton's great-grandfather die?
(a) He was killed in a factory accident.
(b) He was beaten to death by fellow prisoners.
(c) He was beaten to death by the Ku Klux Klan.
(d) He was killed in an automobile accident.

5. What Supreme Court Justice said of the Florida v. Bostick case that "the basis of the decision to single out particular passengers during a suspicionless sweep is less likely to be inarticulate than unspeakable"?
(a) Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(b) Justice Thurgood Marshall.
(c) Justice William Brennan.
(d) Justice Earl Warren.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures?

2. What U.S. Constitutional Amendment provided that the right to vote should not be denied on account of race?

3. Between 1980 and 2000, the number of people incarcerated in prisons in the U.S. went from about 300,000 to how many?

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

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

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