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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: "The Fire This Time".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the article "Where Have the Black Men Gone" appear in Ebony magazine?
(a) March, 2011.
(b) June, 1995.
(c) September, 2001.
(d) December, 2006.

2. What was the dominant means of securing cheap labor in the early colonial period in America, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?
(a) Native American slavery.
(b) Indentured servitude.
(c) White slavery.
(d) Feudalism.

3. What are the three major racialized systems of control adopted by the United States toward African Americans, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) Slavery, poverty, and educational oppression.
(b) Slavery, voting rights, and the War on Drugs.
(c) Slavery, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration.
(d) Slavery, economic inequality, and injustice.

4. What sentence did Edward Clary originally receive for possession of crack cocaine when he was 18?
(a) 15 years in prison.
(b) Five years in prison.
(c) 20 years in prison.
(d) Ten years in prison.

5. Where did Clifford Runoalds return home to attend the funeral of his 18-month-old daughter after he was busted in a drug sweep, according to the author in Chapter 3: "The Color of Justice"?
(a) To Little Rock, Arkansas.
(b) To Dallas, Texas.
(c) To Oxford, Mississippi.
(d) To Bryan, Texas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the authors of We Won't Go Back?

2. How many U.S. states prohibit all employers and licensing agencies from considering arrests, according to the author in Chapter 4: "The Cruel Hand"?

3. Who wrote The Anatomy of Racial Inequality?

4. According to the author in Chapter 3: "The Color of Justice," white youth have about how many times the number of drug-related emergency room visits as their African American counterparts?

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

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