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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. When was the major conference held called "Why We Can't Wait: Reversing the Retreat on Civil Rights"?
(a) March, 2008.
(b) October, 2007.
(c) June, 2004.
(d) July, 2001.

2. What does "caste" refer to?
(a) A system of dividing society into racial classes.
(b) A system of dividing society into educational classes.
(c) A system of dividing society into economic classes.
(d) A system of dividing society into hereditary classes.

3. 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"?
(a) Feudalism.
(b) Indentured servitude.
(c) White slavery.
(d) Native American slavery.

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

5. The author asserts in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown" that drug offenses alone account for what fraction of the rise in the federal inmate population between 1985 and 2000?
(a) Three-fourths.
(b) One-half.
(c) One-third.
(d) Two-thirds.

Short Answer 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"?

2. What U.S. Constitutional Amendment provided that the right to vote should not be denied on account of race?

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

4. 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?

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

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