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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. According to the author in the Introduction, how many people are in prison in the United States per 100,000?
(a) 750.
(b) 250.
(c) 560.
(d) 500.

2. How many drug arrests took place nationally in 2005?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 1.5 million.
(c) 2.5 million.
(d) 3.5 million.

3. Who was Obama's drug czar and the former Chief of Seattle Police?
(a) Lani Guinier.
(b) Gil Kerlikowske.
(c) William Berkeley.
(d) Lerone Bennett Jr.

4. 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) "Suspicion stop."
(b) "Context stop."
(c) "Pretext stop."
(d) "Prevention stop."

5. Who described The Strange Career of Jim Crow as the "historical bible of the Civil Rights Movement"?
(a) Martin Luther King Jr.
(b) Malcolm X.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) W. E. B. Du Bois.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Christopher Lee Armstrong when his motel was raided for drugs?

2. When did Congress, at the behest of Ronald Reagan, revise the program that provides federal aid to law enforcement, renaming it the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program?

3. When did California modify the Three Strikes Law with Proposition 36?

4. In the Urban League's 1990 report, "The State of Black America," it stated, "There is at least one concept that must be recognized if one is to see the pervasive and insidious nature of the drug problem for the African American community. Though difficult to accept, that is the concept of" what?

5. Who was the governor that was under attack in Bacon's Rebellion?

(see the answer key)

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