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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow".
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When was Schneckloth v. Bustamonte decided?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1982.
2. In 2006, one in how many African American men was behind bars?
(a) 20.
(b) 29.
(c) 14.
(d) 106.
3. 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 marijuana.
(c) A pound of heroin.
(d) A pound of quaaludes.
4. Who was the former director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy that stated that if your child bought drugs, "it was from a student of their own race generally"?
(a) Barry McCaffrey.
(b) Marc Mauer.
(c) Douglas Blackmon.
(d) George Wallace.
5. The author uses a metaphor in Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow" to describe the circumstances of white Americans who are harmed by the War on Drugs. To whom are these white Americans compared?
(a) Vietnamese civilians harmed by U.S. military operations.
(b) Korean civilians harmed by U.S. military operations.
(c) Afghani civilians harmed by U.S. military operations.
(d) Iraqi civilians harmed by U.S. military operations.
Short Answer Questions
1. In June of 2001, how many more black men were in the Illinois state prison system than were enrolled in the state's public universities?
2. What Supreme Court Justice said of the Florida v. Bostick case that "the basis of the decision to single out particular passengers during a suspicionless sweep is less likely to be inarticulate than unspeakable"?
3. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
4. When did the CIA admit that guerilla armies it actively supported in Nicaragua were smuggling crack cocaine into the United States?
5. The author cites Marilyn Frye as having made a metaphor for the systemic racism toward African Americans. What metaphor is used?
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