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

2. About what percentage of offenders and ex-offenders are high school dropouts, according to the author in Chapter 4: "The Cruel Hand"?
(a) About 50%.
(b) About 60%.
(c) About 90%.
(d) About 70%.

3. Where was the National Colored Convention that Frederick Douglass made the statement that is quoted in the beginning of Chapter 4: "The Cruel Hand"?
(a) Boston, Massachusetts.
(b) Cleveland, Ohio.
(c) New York, New York.
(d) Rochester, New York.

4. 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"?
(a) 50 to 60%.
(b) 60 to 70%.
(c) 70 to 80%.
(d) 80 to 90%.

5. Where did crack cocaine first emerge in poor black neighborhoods in the United States before spreading elsewhere?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) New York.
(c) Tuscon.
(d) Chicago.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. Who was the governor that was under attack in Bacon's Rebellion?

3. What years comprised the Reconstruction Era?

4. In the Urban League's 1990 report, "The State of Black America," it stated, "There is at least one concept that must be recognized if one is to see the pervasive and insidious nature of the drug problem for the African American community. Though difficult to accept, that is the concept of" what?

5. Who is the author of Doing Time on the Outside?

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