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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. What U.S. President proposed "One Strike and You're Out" legislation that strengthened eviction rules and urged that drug offenders be automatically excluded from public housing?
(a) Bill Clinton.
(b) Barack Obama.
(c) George W. Bush.
(d) Richard Nixon.

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

3. What organization did Dorsey Nunn co-found?
(a) The United Negros' Fund.
(b) The NAACP.
(c) Tomorrow's Sunshine.
(d) All of Us or None.

4. The author asserts in The New Jim Crow that no one has more power in the criminal justice system than whom?
(a) Defense attorneys.
(b) Defendants.
(c) Judges.
(d) Prosecutors.

5. What years comprised the Reconstruction Era?
(a) 1865-1877.
(b) 1866-1880.
(c) 1864-1872.
(d) 1866-1875.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the ruling for Terry v. Ohio decided?

2. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaw?

3. Where was Edward Clary stopped and searched when he was 18?

4. 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"?

5. 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"?

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