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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 wrote The Anatomy of Racial Inequality?
(a) Glenn Loury.
(b) Loic Wacquant.
(c) C. Vann Woodward.
(d) W. E. B. Du Bois.

2. When was the ruling in Florida v. Bostick decided?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1999.

3. What are the only two states that allow inmates to vote while incarcerated?
(a) Texas and Arkansas.
(b) Louisiana and Mississippi.
(c) Maine and Vermont.
(d) Massachusetts and New York.

4. Why is Jarvious Cotton unable to vote, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) He is illiterate.
(b) He is a felon.
(c) He is a slave.
(d) He is unable to pay poll taxes.

5. In June of 2001, how many more black men were in the Illinois state prison system than were enrolled in the state's public universities?
(a) Nearly 15,000.
(b) Nearly 20,000.
(c) Nearly 5,000.
(d) Nearly 10,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. The quote from Frederick Douglass that opens Chapter 4: "The Cruel Hand" was a part of a statement on behalf of delegates to the National Colored Convention held when?

2. In the Introduction, the author attests that how many people in Germany are in prison for every 100,000 adults and children?

3. What state supreme court issued a landmark decision in the case of Ruffin v. Commonwealth?

4. In what year did a federal grand jury determine that the Ku Klux Klan was a "terrorist organization" and issue hundreds of indictments for crimes of violence and terrorism?

5. When was Christopher Lee Armstrong's motel room raided, leading to his arrest for conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine?

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