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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. According to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste," what "was the device employed to protect the institution of slavery and the political power of slaveholding states" when the Constitution was written?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Authoritarianism.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Federalism.

2. When does the author describe the raid at Stratford High School in Goose Creek, South Carolina as having taken place in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?
(a) November, 2003.
(b) July, 1993.
(c) March, 1999.
(d) August, 2005.

3. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) January 1, 1866.
(b) January 1, 1863.
(c) January 1, 1865.
(d) January 1, 1864.

4. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaw?
(a) Segregation in public schools and buildings.
(b) Discrimination against African Americans in relation to voting rights.
(c) Slavery in the Southern United States.
(d) Discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

5. When were Michael Whren and James Brown stopped by plainclothes officers and searched?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1982.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Supreme Court Justice said of the Florida v. Bostick case that "the basis of the decision to single out particular passengers during a suspicionless sweep is less likely to be inarticulate than unspeakable"?

2. 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"?

3. What years comprised the Reconstruction Era?

4. What term is used in the book to describe "a traffic stop motivated not by any desire to enforce traffic laws, but instead motivated by a desire to hunt for drugs in the absence of any evidence of illegal drug activity"?

5. What question does the author say the book explores in Chapter 1?

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