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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 53%.
(b) 29%.
(c) 76%.
(d) 61%.

2. The author concludes in Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow" that during the age of slavery, white plantation owners were motivated principally by what component?
(a) Greed.
(b) Evil.
(c) Sadism.
(d) Hatred.

3. The increase in the number of African American males sent to prison for drug crimes increased by what percentage between 1985 and 2005?
(a) 2,000%.
(b) 500%.
(c) 1,000%.
(d) 300%.

4. For what crime(s) did Warren McCleskey face the death penalty?
(a) Kidnapping and extortion.
(b) Serial murder.
(c) Murder and armed robbery.
(d) Killing a police officer.

5. In Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow" the author describes a speech that Barack Obama gave during his presidential campaign. Where was the speech given?
(a) The First Episcopal Church.
(b) The New Zion Church of God.
(c) The Apostolic Church of God.
(d) The New Life Christian Science Church.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the defendants in Yick Wo v. Hopkins accused of doing?

2. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

3. Whose quote opens the section "The Birth of Slavery" in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?

4. Who coined the term "invisible punishment" to describe the plight faced by former inmates trapped in the criminal justice system?

5. Where did Nathaniel Bacon live as a property owner?

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