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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. 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) "Genocide."
(b) "Poverty."
(c) "Racism."
(d) "Confidentiality."

2. What does the author describe printed on a bright orange poster that opened her mind to the themes of the book in the Introduction?
(a) "Affirmative Action is the New Jim Crow."
(b) "The Drug War is the New Jim Crow."
(c) "Mass Incarceration is the New Jim Crow."
(d) "Racism Still Exists Today."

3. Where was Christopher Lee Armstrong when his motel was raided for drugs?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Houston.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) New York.

4. When was the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act passed, authorizing public housing agencies the ability to exclude and evict drug offenders and other felons from access?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1998.
(d) 2002.

5. When was the major conference held called "Why We Can't Wait: Reversing the Retreat on Civil Rights"?
(a) March, 2008.
(b) July, 2001.
(c) June, 2004.
(d) October, 2007.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

3. Between 1980 and 2000, the number of people incarcerated in prisons in the U.S. went from about 300,000 to how many?

4. 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?

5. What group of people is the focus of The New Jim Crow, according to the author in her Introduction?

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