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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many bullets were fired at Amadou Diallo?
(a) 29.
(b) 41.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

2. What was not one of the things that Blacks be arrested for under the Black Codes?
(a) Hunting and fishing.
(b) Vagrancy.
(c) Lack of employment.
(d) Gainful employment.

3. Who is the man who killed Hampton Smith for his brutal behavior?
(a) Sid Smith.
(b) Sidney Jones.
(c) Sidney Johnson.
(d) John Sidney.

4. What national crisis did Reagan shift his focus on beginning in 1982?
(a) Financial.
(b) Education.
(c) Housing.
(d) Drugs.

5. What is the title of the Prologue?
(a) Incitement.
(b) Kindling.
(c) Awakening.
(d) Firewood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was president when Sputnik was launched?

2. When did race riots occur in the North?

3. In what year did the “Red Summer” occur?

4. What is the name of the system by which white plantation owners would bail Black men out of jail and have them work off their debt?

5. Once these types of jobs began to disappear in the United States, it became much more difficult for those without an education to make a living wage?

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