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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. What organization did Dorsey Nunn co-found?
(a) The NAACP.
(b) Tomorrow's Sunshine.
(c) The United Negros' Fund.
(d) All of Us or None.

2. The author asserts in The New Jim Crow that no one has more power in the criminal justice system than whom?
(a) Judges.
(b) Prosecutors.
(c) Defense attorneys.
(d) Defendants.

3. When did San Francisco's Ban the Box policy take effect?
(a) 2011.
(b) 2001.
(c) 1995.
(d) 2006.

4. Approximately what percentage of people sentenced to prison in Illinois for a drug offense are African American, according to the author in Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow"?
(a) 80%.
(b) 60%.
(c) 90%.
(d) 70%.

5. The author concludes in Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow" that during the age of slavery, white plantation owners were motivated principally by what component?
(a) Sadism.
(b) Evil.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Greed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose quote opens the section "The Birth of Slavery" in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?

2. What Constitutional Amendment prohibits states from denying citizens due process and "equal protection of the law"?

3. Who is the author of Doing Time on the Outside?

4. When did the CIA admit that guerilla armies it actively supported in Nicaragua were smuggling crack cocaine into the United States?

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

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