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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 wrote The Strange Career of Jim Crow?
(a) Marc Mauer.
(b) C. Vann Woodward.
(c) Loic Wacquant.
(d) W. E. B. Du Bois.

2. Approximately how many people were in prison or jail for a drug offense in 1980?
(a) 41,100.
(b) 25,900.
(c) 35,250.
(d) 29,350.

3. 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?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Authoritarianism.
(c) Federalism.
(d) Capitalism.

4. When were Michael Whren and James Brown stopped by plainclothes officers and searched?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1993.

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

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. When was the ruling for Terry v. Ohio decided?

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

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

5. When did California pass Proposition 184, the Three Strikes Law?

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