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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 and Afterword .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were sentences for crack and cocaine thought to racially discriminate?
(a) Cocaine possession got more time than crack.
(b) Possession of either drugs got the same amount of time.
(c) Crack possession got more time than cocaine.
(d) Cocaine was considered legal.

2. In which newspaper was the author’s initial piece about “white rage” published?
(a) Milwaukee Tribune.
(b) Washington Post.
(c) New York Times.
(d) Chicago Defender.

3. Profits from cocaine trafficked by the CIA to California was used to arm whom?
(a) The Reagan administration.
(b) The United States military.
(c) Anti-Sandinista guerrillas.
(d) The California Police Department.

4. By 2014, what was the number of states that passed voting restriction statutes?
(a) 26.
(b) 5.
(c) 48.
(d) 13.

5. The CCC’s core values justified what?
(a) Police brutality.
(b) Christianity.
(c) White Nationalism.
(d) Slavery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Amite County Mississippi put forth $30.24 per white student and how much per Black student?

2. In Delaware in the 1930’s, Black Americans completed how many years of schooling on average?

3. Who created the American Colonization Society?

4. What is the Great Migration?

5. Under which law did the Supreme Court uphold “racially restrictive housing policies”(56)?

(see the answer key)

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