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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: "The New Jim Crow".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Constitutional Amendment prohibits states from denying citizens due process and "equal protection of the law"?
(a) The 14th Amendment.
(b) The 13th Amendment.
(c) The 15th Amendment.
(d) The 12th Amendment.

2. Where was the conflict labor camp the Parchman Farm established?
(a) Texas.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Mississippi.

3. What percentage of all Southern elected officials were black in 1870?
(a) 20%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 5%.
(d) 15%.

4. Who was the judge assigned to Edward Clary's case in the Federal District of Missouri?
(a) Judge Clyde Cahill.
(b) Judge George Wallace.
(c) Judge William Berkeley.
(d) Judge Lerone Bennett Jr.

5. The author states in Chapter 3: "The Color of Justice," "Human Rights Watch reported in 2000 that, in seven states, African Americans constitute" what percent "of all drug offenders sent to prison"?
(a) 60 to 70%.
(b) 70 to 80%.
(c) 80 to 90%.
(d) 50 to 60%.

Short Answer Questions

1. In June of 2001, how many more black men were in the Illinois state prison system than were enrolled in the state's public universities?

2. Who wrote The Anatomy of Racial Inequality?

3. The author asserts in Chapter 3: "The Color of Justice" that in the federal system, homicide offenders account for 0.4% of the past decade's growth in the federal prison population while drug offenders account for what percent of that expansion?

4. How many drug arrests took place nationally in 2005?

5. In what year was the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act passed that differentiated marijuana from other narcotics?

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