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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. What were the defendants in Yick Wo v. Hopkins accused of doing?
(a) Operating laundries without licenses.
(b) Murder and kidnapping.
(c) Operating restaurants without licenses.
(d) Forgery and extortion.

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

3. Who is the author of Doing Time on the Outside?
(a) C. Vann Woodward.
(b) Devah Pager.
(c) Marc Mauer.
(d) Donald Braman.

4. In the Introduction, the author attests that how many people in Germany are in prison for every 100,000 adults and children?
(a) 116.
(b) 19.
(c) 215.
(d) 93.

5. What was Terrance Bostick found to be carrying on a Greyhound Bus in the case of Florida v. Bostick?
(a) A pound of cocaine.
(b) A pound of heroin.
(c) A pound of marijuana.
(d) A pound of quaaludes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author asserts in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown" that drug offenses alone account for what fraction of the rise in the federal inmate population between 1985 and 2000?

2. When was Ora Lee Hurley imprisoned for owing a fine, according to the author in Chapter 4: "The Cruel Hand"?

3. What organization did Dorsey Nunn co-found?

4. What term became ascribed to American Indians as a way of justifying their eradication, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?

5. Where was the National Colored Convention that Frederick Douglass made the statement that is quoted in the beginning of Chapter 4: "The Cruel Hand"?

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