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

2. 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 35 million.
(b) About 10 million.
(c) About 20 million.
(d) Over 31 million.

3. In the Introduction, the author attests that how many people in Germany are in prison for every 100,000 adults and children?
(a) 93.
(b) 116.
(c) 19.
(d) 215.

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

5. When did Ronald Reagan officially announce the War on Drugs?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1982.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who described The Strange Career of Jim Crow as the "historical bible of the Civil Rights Movement"?

2. According to criminologist Peter Kraska, how many cases of flawed paramilitary raids reached the appellate level between 1989 and 2001?

3. To whom is the following quote that opens Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste" attributed: "The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery"?

4. When did the American Civil War end by proclamation?

5. Who was the governor that was under attack in Bacon's Rebellion?

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