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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of professional black women are unmarried today, according to the author in Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow"?
(a) 70%.
(b) 60%.
(c) 80%.
(d) 50%.

2. 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"?
(a) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(b) John Edgar Wideman.
(c) William Berkeley.
(d) Martin Luther King Jr.

3. What were the defendants in Yick Wo v. Hopkins accused of doing?
(a) Forgery and extortion.
(b) Murder and kidnapping.
(c) Operating laundries without licenses.
(d) Operating restaurants without licenses.

4. One in how many black men between the ages of 20-35 was behind bars in 2006?
(a) 16.
(b) Nine.
(c) 42.
(d) 29.

5. When was the case of Yick Wo v. Hopkins decided?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1886.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1956.

6. How many drug arrests took place nationally in 2005?
(a) 2.5 million.
(b) 1.5 million.
(c) 3.5 million.
(d) 1 million.

7. In what case in 1985 did the Court rule that racially biased strikes violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment?
(a) Rucker v. Davis.
(b) McClesky v. Kemp.
(c) Batson v. Kentucky.
(d) Plessy v. Ferguson.

8. The author asserts in The New Jim Crow that no one has more power in the criminal justice system than whom?
(a) Judges.
(b) Prosecutors.
(c) Defendants.
(d) Defense attorneys.

9. Where was Edward Clary stopped and searched when he was 18?
(a) Chicago O'Hare airport.
(b) The St. Louis airport.
(c) JFK airport.
(d) The San Diego airport.

10. How much was the fine that Ora Lee Hurley owed and was imprisoned for being unable to pay?
(a) $345.
(b) $816.
(c) $705.
(d) $500.

11. Where did Warren McCleskey commit the crime he was accused of?
(a) Texas.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Georgia.

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

13. What fraction of the young black male population in the United States today are unemployed, according to the author in Chapter 4: "The Cruel Hand"?
(a) Nearly one-fourth.
(b) Nearly one-half.
(c) Nearly two-thirds.
(d) Nearly one-third.

14. What writer for Time magazine wrote a critique of Obama's speech, as described in Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow"?
(a) C. Vann Woodward.
(b) Loic Wacquant.
(c) Michael Eric Dyson.
(d) Marc Mauer.

15. Who is attributed to the following quotation in Chapter 3: "The Color of Justice": "there is no immaculate perception"?
(a) C. Vann Woodward.
(b) Douglas Blackmon.
(c) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(d) W. E. B. Du Bois.

Short Answer Questions

1. Federal law provides that a child-support enforcement officer can garnish up to what percent of an individual's wages for child support?

2. In 2006, one in how many African American men was behind bars?

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

4. When did San Francisco's Ban the Box policy take effect?

5. The author notes in Chapter 4: "The Cruel Hand" that two-thirds of people detained in jails report annual incomes under what amount prior to their arrests?

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