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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. Who was the governor that was under attack in Bacon's Rebellion?
(a) Lerone Bennett Jr.
(b) George Wallace.
(c) William Berkeley.
(d) Loic Wacquant.

2. The author states in her Introduction, "Conversations about class are resisted in part because there is a tendency to imagine that one's class reflects upon" what?
(a) "One's character."
(b) "One's race."
(c) "One's income."
(d) One's history."

3. What symbolic relics does the author discuss in connection with the Jena 6 trial that led to the media coverage of the trial?
(a) Slave-driving whips.
(b) Shackles.
(c) White hoods.
(d) Hanging nooses.

4. When was Christopher Lee Armstrong's motel room raided, leading to his arrest for conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine?
(a) May, 1989.
(b) September, 1991.
(c) June, 2000.
(d) April, 1992.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What state supreme court issued a landmark decision in the case of Ruffin v. Commonwealth?

2. What percentage of all Southern elected officials were black in 1870?

3. For what crime(s) did Warren McCleskey face the death penalty?

4. How did Jarvious Cotton's great-grandfather die?

5. Where did Warren McCleskey commit the crime he was accused of?

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