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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. When was the first year that a black person ever sat on a jury in the United States?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1873.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1886.

2. When were Michael Whren and James Brown stopped by plainclothes officers and searched?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1999.

3. In 1997, the Pentagon handed over how many pieces of military equipment to local police departments?
(a) Over 1.2 million.
(b) Over 1.6 million.
(c) Over 1.8 million.
(d) About 3 million.

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

5. To whom is the following quote that opens Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste" attributed: "The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery"?
(a) Martin Luther King Jr.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) W. E. B. Du Bois.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many people were in prison or jail for a drug offense in 1980?

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. How many drug arrests took place nationally in 2005?

4. Where was Ora Lee Hurley imprisoned?

5. What amount of money can Ohio charge probationers as a supervision fee as a condition of probation, according to the author in Chapter 4: "The Cruel Hand"?

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