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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: "The Lockdown".
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Why is Jarvious Cotton unable to vote, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) He is illiterate.
(b) He is a slave.
(c) He is a felon.
(d) He is unable to pay poll taxes.
2. 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?
(a) "Confidentiality."
(b) "Genocide."
(c) "Poverty."
(d) "Racism."
3. When did the American Civil War end by proclamation?
(a) January 1, 1866.
(b) May 9, 1865.
(c) March 1, 1863.
(d) September 16, 1862.
4. What Supreme Court Justice dissented on the ruling in Terry v. Ohio?
(a) Justice Woodward.
(b) Justice Blackmon.
(c) Justice Douglas.
(d) Justice Bennett.
5. 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?
(a) "One's income."
(b) "One's character."
(c) One's history."
(d) "One's race."
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the dominant means of securing cheap labor in the early colonial period in America, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?
2. When were Michael Whren and James Brown stopped by plainclothes officers and searched?
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"?
4. According to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste," what "was the device employed to protect the institution of slavery and the political power of slaveholding states" when the Constitution was written?
5. Who wrote Slavery by Another Name?
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