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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

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 heroin.
(c) A pound of cocaine.
(d) A pound of marijuana.

2. What years comprised the Reconstruction Era?
(a) 1866-1875.
(b) 1864-1872.
(c) 1865-1877.
(d) 1866-1880.

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

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?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1880.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did California pass Proposition 184, the Three Strikes Law?

2. What sociologist is cited in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste" as stating that each reincarnation of racial caste "is less total, less capable of encompassing and controlling the entire race"?

3. When were Michael Whren and James Brown stopped by plainclothes officers and searched?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does a "consent search" refer to?

2. What did the Supreme Court case of Florida v. Bostick establish?

3. What were the impacts and repercussions of Bacon's Rebellion?

4. What percentages do drug offenses account for in the rise of the federal inmate population and state prisoners, according to the author in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?

5. What are "pretext stops"? How are they employed in the War on Drugs?

6. What is the Ku Klux Klan? What did the Ku Klux Klan acts dictate?

7. What was concluded in the case of Brown v. Board of Education?

8. How do incarceration rates in the U.S. compare with those in other countries across the globe?

9. How does the author use Jarvious Cotton as an example in the Introduction to The New Jim Crow?

10. What legislative achievements were seen in the Reconstruction Era?

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