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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 4: "The Cruel Hand" that anyone convicted of a felony is automatically ineligible for public housing assistance for at least what length of time?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Two years.
(d) One year.

2. When was Alberta Spruill killed in a botched SWAT raid in Harlem?
(a) June 13, 2000.
(b) May 16, 2003.
(c) April 12, 1995.
(d) September 16, 2006.

3. What term is used in the book to describe "a traffic stop motivated not by any desire to enforce traffic laws, but instead motivated by a desire to hunt for drugs in the absence of any evidence of illegal drug activity"?
(a) "Context stop."
(b) "Prevention stop."
(c) "Suspicion stop."
(d) "Pretext stop."

4. The author asserts in The New Jim Crow that no one has more power in the criminal justice system than whom?
(a) Defendants.
(b) Judges.
(c) Defense attorneys.
(d) Prosecutors.

5. When does the author describe the drunk driving accident in Kentucky that left 27 people dead in Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow"?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1980.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the CIA admit that guerilla armies it actively supported in Nicaragua were smuggling crack cocaine into the United States?

2. 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?

3. In what year was the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act passed that differentiated marijuana from other narcotics?

4. Where did Warren McCleskey commit the crime he was accused of?

5. When was the first year that a black person ever sat on a jury in the United States?

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