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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. 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?
(a) One's history."
(b) "One's race."
(c) "One's character."
(d) "One's income."

2. In 2005, how many drug arrests were for possession?
(a) Four out of five.
(b) One out of three.
(c) Three out of five.
(d) Two out of five.

3. Where was Terrance Bostick traveling on a Greyhound bus when he was arrested?
(a) To Los Angeles.
(b) To Little Rock.
(c) To Memphis.
(d) To Atlanta.

4. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) January 1, 1865.
(b) January 1, 1866.
(c) January 1, 1863.
(d) January 1, 1864.

5. When did the Supreme Court rule in United States v. Harris that the Klan Act was partially unconstitutional?
(a) 1882.
(b) 1872.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1895.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Slavery by Another Name?

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. What Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures?

4. What was the dominant means of securing cheap labor in the early colonial period in America, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?

5. In the Introduction, the author attests that how many people in Germany are in prison for every 100,000 adults and children?

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