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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. What organization did Dorsey Nunn co-found?
(a) Tomorrow's Sunshine.
(b) The NAACP.
(c) The United Negros' Fund.
(d) All of Us or None.
2. Who was Obama's drug czar and the former Chief of Seattle Police?
(a) Lani Guinier.
(b) William Berkeley.
(c) Gil Kerlikowske.
(d) Lerone Bennett Jr.
3. What sociologist is cited as saying in Chapter 4: "The Cruel Hand" that those sent to prison "are institutionally branded as a particular class of individuals"?
(a) Lerone Bennett Jr.
(b) William Berkeley.
(c) Devah Pager.
(d) C. Vann Woodward.
4. Nearly how many African Americans live below the poverty line today, according to the author in Chapter 6: "The Fire This Time"?
(a) Nearly 1/4.
(b) Nearly 1/3.
(c) Nearly 2/3.
(d) Nearly 1/2.
5. What does the author describe printed on a bright orange poster that opened her mind to the themes of the book in the Introduction?
(a) "Affirmative Action is the New Jim Crow."
(b) "Racism Still Exists Today."
(c) "The Drug War is the New Jim Crow."
(d) "Mass Incarceration is the New Jim Crow."
Short Answer Questions
1. When was the Anti-Drug Abuse Act passed that called for strict lease enforcement and eviction of public housing tenants who engage in criminal activity?
2. What term is used in the book to describe "a traffic stop motivated not by any desire to enforce traffic laws, but instead motivated by a desire to hunt for drugs in the absence of any evidence of illegal drug activity"?
3. When was Christopher Lee Armstrong's motel room raided, leading to his arrest for conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine?
4. What years comprised the Reconstruction Era?
5. The author asserts in Chapter 6: "The Fire This Time," "Any racial justice movement, to be successful, must vigorously challenge the public consensus that underlies" what?
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