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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. What Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures?
(a) The 4th Amendment.
(b) The 3rd Amendment.
(c) The 16th Amendment.
(d) The 2nd Amendment.

2. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) January 1, 1865.
(b) January 1, 1863.
(c) January 1, 1864.
(d) January 1, 1866.

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) One-third.
(b) One-half.
(c) Two-thirds.
(d) Three-fourths.

4. The author states in her Introduction, "Conversations about class are resisted in part because there is a tendency to imagine that one's class reflects upon" what?
(a) One's history."
(b) "One's race."
(c) "One's income."
(d) "One's character."

5. When did California pass Proposition 184, the Three Strikes Law?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1994.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who described The Strange Career of Jim Crow as the "historical bible of the Civil Rights Movement"?

2. What state supreme court issued a landmark decision in the case of Ruffin v. Commonwealth?

3. In 2006, one in how many African American men was behind bars?

4. When was Batson v. Kentucky decided?

5. The author states in Chapter 3: "The Color of Justice," "Human Rights Watch reported in 2000 that, in seven states, African Americans constitute" what percent "of all drug offenders sent to prison"?

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