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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. When was the ruling for Terry v. Ohio decided?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1988.
2. 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) "Racism Still Exists Today."
(c) "The Drug War is the New Jim Crow."
(d) "Affirmative Action is the New Jim Crow."
3. The author asserts in Chapter 3: "The Color of Justice" that in the federal system, homicide offenders account for 0.4% of the past decade's growth in the federal prison population while drug offenders account for what percent of that expansion?
(a) 61%.
(b) 76%.
(c) 29%.
(d) 53%.
4. According to the author in Chapter 3: "The Color of Justice," white youth have about how many times the number of drug-related emergency room visits as their African American counterparts?
(a) Two times.
(b) Five times.
(c) Three times.
(d) Four times.
5. How many drug arrests took place nationally in 2005?
(a) 1.5 million.
(b) 1 million.
(c) 3.5 million.
(d) 2.5 million.
Short Answer Questions
1. The author asserts in The New Jim Crow that no one has more power in the criminal justice system than whom?
2. Where did crack cocaine first emerge in poor black neighborhoods in the United States before spreading elsewhere?
3. When did Congress, at the behest of Ronald Reagan, revise the program that provides federal aid to law enforcement, renaming it the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program?
4. Who wrote The Strange Career of Jim Crow?
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"?
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