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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. Where was the conflict labor camp the Parchman Farm established?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Texas.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Georgia.

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

3. When did the American Civil War begin?
(a) March 1, 1863.
(b) January 1, 1866.
(c) April 12, 1861.
(d) September 16, 1862.

4. To whom is the following quote that opens Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste" attributed: "The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery"?
(a) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(b) Martin Luther King Jr.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

5. When was the case of McCleskey v. Kemp decided by the Supreme Court?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1987.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How did Jarvious Cotton's great-grandfather die?

3. When was the ruling for Terry v. Ohio decided?

4. Why is Jarvious Cotton unable to vote, according to the author in the Introduction?

5. When was Batson v. Kentucky decided?

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