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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: "The Color of Justice".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did a federal grand jury determine that the Ku Klux Klan was a "terrorist organization" and issue hundreds of indictments for crimes of violence and terrorism?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1865.

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

3. What agency arose in the Reconstruction Era that was charged with the responsibility of providing food, clothing, fuel, and other forms of assistance to former slaves?
(a) The Amerian Negro's Fund.
(b) NAFTA.
(c) The Freedman's Bureau.
(d) The NAACP.

4. When was the ruling in Florida v. Bostick decided?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1996.

5. What sociologist is cited in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste" as stating that each reincarnation of racial caste "is less total, less capable of encompassing and controlling the entire race"?
(a) Loic Wacquant.
(b) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(c) Marc Mauer.
(d) Martin Luther King Jr.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Supreme Court rule in United States v. Harris that the Klan Act was partially unconstitutional?

2. Where was Terrance Bostick traveling on a Greyhound bus when he was arrested?

3. What U.S. Constitutional Amendment provided that the right to vote should not be denied on account of race?

4. What state supreme court issued a landmark decision in the case of Ruffin v. Commonwealth?

5. The author asserts in The New Jim Crow that no one has more power in the criminal justice system than whom?

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