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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1992.

2. In 1997, the Pentagon handed over how many pieces of military equipment to local police departments?
(a) Over 1.2 million.
(b) About 3 million.
(c) Over 1.8 million.
(d) Over 1.6 million.

3. When was Alberta Spruill killed in a botched SWAT raid in Harlem?
(a) June 13, 2000.
(b) September 16, 2006.
(c) April 12, 1995.
(d) May 16, 2003.

4. Approximately how many people have been arrested for drug offenses since the drug war began, according to the author in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?
(a) Over 31 million.
(b) About 20 million.
(c) About 10 million.
(d) Over 35 million.

5. To whom is the following quote that opens Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste" attributed: "The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery"?
(a) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(b) Martin Luther King Jr.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

6. When did California modify the Three Strikes Law with Proposition 36?
(a) 2012.
(b) 2013.
(c) 2015.
(d) 2011.

7. When were Michael Whren and James Brown stopped by plainclothes officers and searched?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1982.

8. Where was the conflict labor camp the Parchman Farm established?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Texas.

9. What state supreme court issued a landmark decision in the case of Ruffin v. Commonwealth?
(a) The Mississippi Supreme Court.
(b) The Louisiana Supreme Court.
(c) The Arkansas Supreme Court.
(d) The Virginia Supreme Court.

10. In the Introduction, the author attests that how many people in Germany are in prison for every 100,000 adults and children?
(a) 215.
(b) 19.
(c) 93.
(d) 116.

11. What agency arose in the Reconstruction Era that was charged with the responsibility of providing food, clothing, fuel, and other forms of assistance to former slaves?
(a) The Freedman's Bureau.
(b) The Amerian Negro's Fund.
(c) NAFTA.
(d) The NAACP.

12. 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?
(a) One-half.
(b) Three-fourths.
(c) One-third.
(d) Two-thirds.

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

14. When did Ronald Reagan officially announce the War on Drugs?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1984.

15. Who was the governor that was under attack in Bacon's Rebellion?
(a) William Berkeley.
(b) Lerone Bennett Jr.
(c) George Wallace.
(d) Loic Wacquant.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the ruling for Terry v. Ohio decided?

2. What question does the author say the book explores in Chapter 1?

3. Where did Nathaniel Bacon live as a property owner?

4. In what year did a federal grand jury determine that the Ku Klux Klan was a "terrorist organization" and issue hundreds of indictments for crimes of violence and terrorism?

5. Why is Jarvious Cotton unable to vote, according to the author in the Introduction?

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