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Upfront Quiz - 10/5/18
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Question 1
1.
"Does Nikolas Cruz Deserve to Die?"
What does the 8th Amendment prohibit, or forbid?
A) autocratic regimes
B) DNA-based exonerations
C) cruel and unusual punishment
D) executions performed by doctors
Question 2
2.
"Does Nikolas Cruz Deserve to Die?"
Why did the Supreme Court impose a moratorium, or a temporary prohibition, on executions in 1972?
A) States could not get the drugs required for lethal injections
B) There were no consistent standards for who was being executed
C) Other countries put pressure on the United States to change its execution policies
D) Several death row inmates testified that they could no longer remember their crimes
Question 3
3.
"Does Nikolas Cruz Deserve to Die?"
Why did states start using lethal injection as the method for execution in the 1980s?
A) Lethal injection was seen as more humane
B) The Supreme Court ruled against using all other methods of execution
C) Juries would vote for the death penalty only if it would be done by lethal injection
D) All of the above statements are correct
Question 4
4.
"Does Nikolas Cruz Deserve to Die?"
How many of the world's countries have abolished, or outlawed, the death penalty?
A) none
B) 1/3
C) 1/2
D) more than 2/3
Question 5
5.
"Big Brother Comes to China"
Which statement best describes how the surveillance system has been implemented in China?
A) The government created the system on its own
B) Other countries have advised China on how to manage its system
C) Chinese businesses have worked with the government to create the system
D) Citizens have volunteered to help the government install the system
Question 6
6.
"Big Brother Comes to China"
When do facial recognition glasses work?
A) only when the weather is nice
B) only when used in a police station
C) only when the person being looked at is standing still
D) only when the people being looked at are moving through a crowd
Question 7
7.
"The American Revolution"
What was the Sugar Act?
A) a debt owed by Great Britain
B) a law that imposed a tax on the colonists
C) a treaty signed between France and America
D) a battle fought early in the Revolutionary War
Question 8
8.
"The American Revolution"
Why did some people want to replace George Washington as the commander of the Continental Army?
A) They feared he would name himself king
B) They thought someone else would do a better job
C) They were worried he would turn the war into a global conflict
D) They knew the French would more strongly support a different commander
Question 9
9.
"The American Revolution"
Black soldiers fought alongside colonists in which battles?
A) none of them
B) only the battles of Lexington and Concord
C) only the battles of Saratoga and Yorktown
D) almost every significant battle
Question 10
10.
"The American Revolution"
What was the Treaty of Paris?
A) a series of 13 taxes imposed on the American Colonies
B) the agreement to give Lafayette the position of general
C) the peace deal between the United States and Great Britain
D) a major act of defiance, or resistance, by the colonists against Great Britain prior to the war