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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. 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) 70%.
(b) 90%.
(c) 60%.
(d) 80%.

2. Who are the authors of We Won't Go Back?
(a) Andrew Scott and C. Vann Woodward.
(b) Jimmy Anderson and Frederick Ross.
(c) Mari Matsuda and Charles Lawrence.
(d) Jerome Butler and Lerone Bennett.

3. The author asserts in the Introduction that one in how many young African American men are currently under the control of the criminal justice system--in prison, in jail, on probation, or on parole?
(a) One in ten.
(b) One in four.
(c) One in three.
(d) One in five.

4. The author asserts in Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow," "All racial caste systems, not just mass incarceration, have been supported by" what?
(a) "The white community."
(b) "Racial bias."
(c) "Affirmative action."
(d) "Racial indifference."

5. When was Swain v. Alabama decided?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1992.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1973.

Short Answer Questions

1. Nearly how many African Americans live below the poverty line today, according to the author in Chapter 6: "The Fire This Time"?

2. What U.S. Constitutional Amendment provided that the right to vote should not be denied on account of race?

3. When was the major conference held called "Why We Can't Wait: Reversing the Retreat on Civil Rights"?

4. When was Alberta Spruill killed in a botched SWAT raid in Harlem?

5. When did California pass Proposition 184, the Three Strikes Law?

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