1. By the end of 2007, how many Americans were behind bars, on probation, or on parole, according to the author in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?
(a) Over 7 million.
(b) Over 8 million.
(c) About 3 million.
(d) About 5 million.

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

3. What Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures?
(a) The 3rd Amendment.
(b) The 4th Amendment.
(c) The 16th Amendment.
(d) The 2nd Amendment.

4. What word used in the Introduction refers to the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities?
(a) Authoritarian.
(b) Egalitarian.
(c) Utilitarian.
(d) Unitarian.

5. 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 racial classes.
(d) A system of dividing society into hereditary classes.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. According to criminologist Peter Kraska, how many cases of flawed paramilitary raids reached the appellate level between 1989 and 2001?

3. When was the home of Scott Bryant raided by police in Dodge City, Wisconsin?

4. When did the CIA admit that guerilla armies it actively supported in Nicaragua were smuggling crack cocaine into the United States?

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

(see the answer key)

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