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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: "The Cruel Hand".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Terrance Bostick found to be carrying on a Greyhound Bus in the case of Florida v. Bostick?
(a) A pound of cocaine.
(b) A pound of quaaludes.
(c) A pound of marijuana.
(d) A pound of heroin.

2. What Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures?
(a) The 4th Amendment.
(b) The 16th Amendment.
(c) The 3rd Amendment.
(d) The 2nd Amendment.

3. Whose quote opens the section "The Birth of Slavery" in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?
(a) Frederick Douglass's.
(b) Lerone Bennett Jr.'s.
(c) Malcolm X's.
(d) Martin Luther King Jr.'s.

4. When was the Anti-Drug Abuse Act passed that called for strict lease enforcement and eviction of public housing tenants who engage in criminal activity?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1986.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Who is the author of Doing Time on the Outside?

4. In 2005, how many drug arrests were for possession?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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