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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. Who wrote The Strange Career of Jim Crow?
(a) Loic Wacquant.
(b) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(c) Marc Mauer.
(d) C. Vann Woodward.

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

3. Who was the judge assigned to Edward Clary's case in the Federal District of Missouri?
(a) Judge Lerone Bennett Jr.
(b) Judge George Wallace.
(c) Judge William Berkeley.
(d) Judge Clyde Cahill.

4. Who is attributed to the following quotation in Chapter 3: "The Color of Justice": "there is no immaculate perception"?
(a) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(b) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(c) C. Vann Woodward.
(d) Douglas Blackmon.

5. How old was Emma Faye Stewart when she was arrested as part of a drug sweep, according to the author in Chapter 3: "The Color of Justice"?
(a) 35.
(b) 25.
(c) 20.
(d) 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

2. The author asserts in The New Jim Crow that no one has more power in the criminal justice system than whom?

3. During the time she worked at the ACLU, Michelle Alexander's focus shifted from employment discrimination to what focus?

4. How many SWAT team deployments were sent out for paramilitary drug raids in 2001?

5. What term became ascribed to American Indians as a way of justifying their eradication, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?

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