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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 did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaw?
(a) Discrimination against African Americans in relation to voting rights.
(b) Discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
(c) Segregation in public schools and buildings.
(d) Slavery in the Southern United States.

2. In Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow" the author describes a speech that Barack Obama gave during his presidential campaign. Where was the speech given?
(a) The New Life Christian Science Church.
(b) The New Zion Church of God.
(c) The Apostolic Church of God.
(d) The First Episcopal Church.

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

4. What does "caste" refer to?
(a) A system of dividing society into economic classes.
(b) A system of dividing society into racial classes.
(c) A system of dividing society into hereditary classes.
(d) A system of dividing society into educational classes.

5. When was the home of Scott Bryant raided by police in Dodge City, Wisconsin?
(a) July, 1993.
(b) March, 1999.
(c) April, 1995.
(d) June, 2000.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the end of 2007, how many Americans were behind bars, on probation, or on parole, according to the author in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?

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. How did Jarvious Cotton's great-grandfather die?

4. The author states in her Introduction, "Conversations about class are resisted in part because there is a tendency to imagine that one's class reflects upon" what?

5. According to the author in Chapter 6: "The Fire This Time," when did the British Society for the Abolition of Slavery adopt as its official seal a woodcut that stated "Am I not a man and a brother?"

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