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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. When was The Strange Career of Jim Crow published?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1959.

2. When was the case of McCleskey v. Kemp decided by the Supreme Court?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1983.

3. Where was Edward Clary stopped and searched when he was 18?
(a) The San Diego airport.
(b) JFK airport.
(c) Chicago O'Hare airport.
(d) The St. Louis airport.

4. Where did Warren McCleskey commit the crime he was accused of?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Texas.
(d) Mississippi.

5. Who wrote Slavery by Another Name?
(a) C. Vann Woodward.
(b) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(c) Douglas Blackmon.
(d) Loic Wacquant.

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. Who is attributed to the following quotation in Chapter 3: "The Color of Justice": "there is no immaculate perception"?

3. What group of people is the focus of The New Jim Crow, according to the author in her Introduction?

4. Between 1980 and 2000, the number of people incarcerated in prisons in the U.S. went from about 300,000 to how many?

5. Who was the executive director of the Sentencing Project when the book was written?

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