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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: "The Fire This Time".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many SWAT team deployments were sent out for paramilitary drug raids in 2001?
(a) 40,000.
(b) 25,000.
(c) 32,000.
(d) 50,000.

2. Who were the two African American women that were considered as civil rights advocates and rejected in favor of Rosa Parks, according to the author in Chapter 6: "The Fire This Time"?
(a) Claudette Colvin and Mary Louise Smith.
(b) Angela Morris and Sarah Waterson.
(c) Paige Williams and Jennifer Scott.
(d) Anne Bennett and C. Vann Woodward.

3. Who said that "power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will"?
(a) Friedrich Nietzche.
(b) George Wallace.
(c) William Berkeley.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

4. Who are the authors of Racial Formation in the United States?
(a) James Williams and Andrew Ross.
(b) Michael Omi and Howard Winant.
(c) Richard Freeman and Damon Hininger.
(d) Devah Pager and Lerone Bennett.

5. 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?
(a) 53%.
(b) 61%.
(c) 29%.
(d) 76%.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people does the author say are in prison or jail for a drug offense today in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?

2. The author asserts in Chapter 4: "The Cruel Hand" that anyone convicted of a felony is automatically ineligible for public housing assistance for at least what length of time?

3. What are the only two states that allow inmates to vote while incarcerated?

4. In 1997, the Pentagon handed over how many pieces of military equipment to local police departments?

5. When was the Military Cooperation with Law Enforcement Act passed?

(see the answer key)

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