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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: "The Lockdown".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Terrance Bostick found to be carrying on a Greyhound Bus in the case of Florida v. Bostick?
(a) A pound of quaaludes.
(b) A pound of cocaine.
(c) A pound of marijuana.
(d) A pound of heroin.

2. What group of people is the focus of The New Jim Crow, according to the author in her Introduction?
(a) African American men.
(b) African American women.
(c) White American men.
(d) Latinos and other immigrants.

3. What does "caste" refer to?
(a) A system of dividing society into economic classes.
(b) A system of dividing society into educational classes.
(c) A system of dividing society into hereditary classes.
(d) A system of dividing society into racial classes.

4. In her Introduction, the author writes, "The impact of the drug war has been astounding. In less than 30 years, the U.S penal population exploded from around 300,000 to" how many?
(a) "More than 3 million."
(b) "Nearly 1.5 million."
(c) "More than 2 million."
(d) "Almost 1 million."

5. What was the dominant means of securing cheap labor in the early colonial period in America, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?
(a) Indentured servitude.
(b) White slavery.
(c) Feudalism.
(d) Native American slavery.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Introduction, the author attests that how many people in Germany are in prison for every 100,000 adults and children?

2. When was Schneckloth v. Bustamonte decided?

3. What Constitutional Amendment prohibits states from denying citizens due process and "equal protection of the law"?

4. Where was the conflict labor camp the Parchman Farm established?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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