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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: "The Cruel Hand".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What state supreme court issued a landmark decision in the case of Ruffin v. Commonwealth?
(a) The Louisiana Supreme Court.
(b) The Arkansas Supreme Court.
(c) The Mississippi Supreme Court.
(d) The Virginia Supreme Court.

3. When was The Strange Career of Jim Crow published?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1955.

4. Who described The Strange Career of Jim Crow as the "historical bible of the Civil Rights Movement"?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) Malcolm X.
(c) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(d) Martin Luther King Jr.

5. When did the CIA admit that guerilla armies it actively supported in Nicaragua were smuggling crack cocaine into the United States?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1998.
(d) 2001.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the only two states that allow inmates to vote while incarcerated?

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?

3. When was Alberta Spruill killed in a botched SWAT raid in Harlem?

4. Where was Ora Lee Hurley imprisoned?

5. What agency arose in the Reconstruction Era that was charged with the responsibility of providing food, clothing, fuel, and other forms of assistance to former slaves?

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