View a FREE sample

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) Segregation in public schools and buildings.
(c) Slavery in the Southern United States.
(d) Discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

2. 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) 60%.
(b) 80%.
(c) 70%.
(d) 90%.

3. Who said that "power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will"?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) George Wallace.
(c) William Berkeley.
(d) Friedrich Nietzche.

4. According to criminologist Peter Kraska, how many cases of flawed paramilitary raids reached the appellate level between 1989 and 2001?
(a) 290.
(b) 780.
(c) 620.
(d) 350.

5. In what year was the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act passed that differentiated marijuana from other narcotics?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1986.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Schneckloth v. Bustamonte decided?

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

3. Approximately how many people have been arrested for drug offenses since the drug war began, according to the author in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?

4. On what date does the author describe more than 10,000 protestors descending on Jena, Louisiana, in Chapter 6: "The Fire This Time"?

5. Who is attributed to the quote in Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow," "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 249 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample