1. For what crime(s) did Warren McCleskey face the death penalty?
(a) Serial murder.
(b) Murder and armed robbery.
(c) Killing a police officer.
(d) Kidnapping and extortion.

2. When was Brown v. Board of Education decided?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1954.

3. When was Christopher Lee Armstrong's motel room raided, leading to his arrest for conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine?
(a) June, 2000.
(b) April, 1992.
(c) September, 1991.
(d) May, 1989.

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?
(a) One's history."
(b) "One's character."
(c) "One's income."
(d) "One's race."

5. What Supreme Court Justice said of the Florida v. Bostick case that "the basis of the decision to single out particular passengers during a suspicionless sweep is less likely to be inarticulate than unspeakable"?
(a) Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(b) Justice William Brennan.
(c) Justice Thurgood Marshall.
(d) Justice Earl Warren.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term became ascribed to American Indians as a way of justifying their eradication, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?

2. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaw?

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

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

5. Who wrote The Anatomy of Racial Inequality?

(see the answer key)

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