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

2. What U.S. Constitutional Amendment provided that the right to vote should not be denied on account of race?
(a) The 15th Amendment.
(b) The 14th Amendment.
(c) The 12th Amendment.
(d) The 16th Amendment.

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

4. According to criminologist Peter Kraska, how many cases of flawed paramilitary raids reached the appellate level between 1989 and 2001?
(a) 350.
(b) 290.
(c) 620.
(d) 780.

5. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaw?
(a) Slavery in the Southern United States.
(b) Segregation in public schools and buildings.
(c) Discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
(d) Discrimination against African Americans in relation to voting rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Terrance Bostick traveling on a Greyhound bus when he was arrested?

2. What was Terrance Bostick found to be carrying on a Greyhound Bus in the case of Florida v. Bostick?

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

4. Whose quote opens the section "The Birth of Slavery" in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?

5. When was the major conference held called "Why We Can't Wait: Reversing the Retreat on Civil Rights"?

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