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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 Slavery by Another Name?
(a) Douglas Blackmon.
(b) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(c) Loic Wacquant.
(d) C. Vann Woodward.

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

3. What sociologist is cited in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste" as stating that each reincarnation of racial caste "is less total, less capable of encompassing and controlling the entire race"?
(a) Loic Wacquant.
(b) Marc Mauer.
(c) Martin Luther King Jr.
(d) W. E. B. Du Bois.

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

5. When was Schneckloth v. Bustamonte decided?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1982.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the CIA admit that guerilla armies it actively supported in Nicaragua were smuggling crack cocaine into the United States?

2. 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?

3. During the time she worked at the ACLU, Michelle Alexander's focus shifted from employment discrimination to what focus?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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