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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. Who was the governor that was under attack in Bacon's Rebellion?
(a) George Wallace.
(b) William Berkeley.
(c) Lerone Bennett Jr.
(d) Loic Wacquant.
2. What question does the author say the book explores in Chapter 1?
(a) "Where do we go next?"
(b) "How do we face and address the past?"
(c) "Why are we here?"
(d) "How did we get here?"
3. What term is used in the book to describe "a traffic stop motivated not by any desire to enforce traffic laws, but instead motivated by a desire to hunt for drugs in the absence of any evidence of illegal drug activity"?
(a) "Context stop."
(b) "Prevention stop."
(c) "Pretext stop."
(d) "Suspicion stop."
4. What group of people is the focus of The New Jim Crow, according to the author in her Introduction?
(a) African American women.
(b) Latinos and other immigrants.
(c) African American men.
(d) White American men.
5. When did California pass Proposition 184, the Three Strikes Law?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1996.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where was the conflict labor camp the Parchman Farm established?
2. What years comprised the Reconstruction Era?
3. When were Michael Whren and James Brown stopped by plainclothes officers and searched?
4. How many SWAT team deployments were sent out for paramilitary drug raids in 2001?
5. The author asserts in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown" that drug offenses alone account for what fraction of the rise in the federal inmate population between 1985 and 2000?
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