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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. 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 character."
(b) "One's race."
(c) "One's income."
(d) One's history."

2. What Constitutional Amendment prohibits states from denying citizens due process and "equal protection of the law"?
(a) The 13th Amendment.
(b) The 14th Amendment.
(c) The 15th Amendment.
(d) The 12th Amendment.

3. When was Batson v. Kentucky decided?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1985.

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

5. What word used in the Introduction refers to the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities?
(a) Egalitarian.
(b) Authoritarian.
(c) Utilitarian.
(d) Unitarian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Supreme Court Justice dissented on the ruling in Terry v. Ohio?

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. In 2006, one in how many African American men was behind bars?

4. What was Terrance Bostick found to be carrying on a Greyhound Bus in the case of Florida v. Bostick?

5. How many drug arrests took place nationally in 2005?

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