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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. 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) Over 35 million.
(c) About 10 million.
(d) About 20 million.

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

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

4. During the time she worked at the ACLU, Michelle Alexander's focus shifted from employment discrimination to what focus?
(a) Affirmative action.
(b) Tax reform.
(c) Criminal justice reform.
(d) Education reform.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What Supreme Court Justice dissented on the ruling in Terry v. Ohio?

3. 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?

4. What group of people is the focus of The New Jim Crow, according to the author in her Introduction?

5. According to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste," what "was the device employed to protect the institution of slavery and the political power of slaveholding states" when the Constitution was written?

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