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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. How many SWAT team deployments were sent out for paramilitary drug raids in 2001?
(a) 32,000.
(b) 40,000.
(c) 25,000.
(d) 50,000.

2. Why is Jarvious Cotton unable to vote, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) He is illiterate.
(b) He is unable to pay poll taxes.
(c) He is a felon.
(d) He is a slave.

3. What does the author describe printed on a bright orange poster that opened her mind to the themes of the book in the Introduction?
(a) "Mass Incarceration is the New Jim Crow."
(b) "The Drug War is the New Jim Crow."
(c) "Affirmative Action is the New Jim Crow."
(d) "Racism Still Exists Today."

4. When did the American Civil War end by proclamation?
(a) March 1, 1863.
(b) May 9, 1865.
(c) January 1, 1866.
(d) September 16, 1862.

5. When does the author describe the raid at Stratford High School in Goose Creek, South Carolina as having taken place in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?
(a) March, 1999.
(b) July, 1993.
(c) August, 2005.
(d) November, 2003.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Terrance Bostick found to be carrying on a Greyhound Bus in the case of Florida v. Bostick?

2. What sociologist is cited in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste" as stating that each reincarnation of racial caste "is less total, less capable of encompassing and controlling the entire race"?

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

4. What word used in the Introduction refers to the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities?

5. The author asserts in the Introduction that one in how many young African American men are currently under the control of the criminal justice system--in prison, in jail, on probation, or on parole?

(see the answer key)

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