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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. To whom is the following quote that opens Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste" attributed: "The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery"?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) Malcolm X.
(c) Martin Luther King Jr.
(d) W. E. B. Du Bois.

2. What Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures?
(a) The 4th Amendment.
(b) The 16th Amendment.
(c) The 3rd Amendment.
(d) The 2nd Amendment.

3. Who described The Strange Career of Jim Crow as the "historical bible of the Civil Rights Movement"?
(a) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(b) Malcolm X.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) Martin Luther King Jr.

4. In what year was the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act passed that differentiated marijuana from other narcotics?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1986.

5. Where did Clifford Runoalds return home to attend the funeral of his 18-month-old daughter after he was busted in a drug sweep, according to the author in Chapter 3: "The Color of Justice"?
(a) To Bryan, Texas.
(b) To Oxford, Mississippi.
(c) To Little Rock, Arkansas.
(d) To Dallas, Texas.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 2005, how many drug arrests were for possession?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. About what percentage of offenders and ex-offenders are high school dropouts, according to the author in Chapter 4: "The Cruel Hand"?

5. The author asserts in the Introduction that one in how many young African American men are currently under the control of the criminal justice system--in prison, in jail, on probation, or on parole?

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