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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaw?
(a) Segregation in public schools and buildings.
(b) Discrimination against African Americans in relation to voting rights.
(c) Discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
(d) Slavery in the Southern United States.

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

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

4. 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) One-third.
(b) Three-fourths.
(c) One-half.
(d) Two-thirds.

5. When does the author describe the raid at Stratford High School in Goose Creek, South Carolina as having taken place in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?
(a) August, 2005.
(b) March, 1999.
(c) July, 1993.
(d) November, 2003.

6. 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) Capitalism.
(c) Authoritarianism.
(d) Federalism.

7. What agency arose in the Reconstruction Era that was charged with the responsibility of providing food, clothing, fuel, and other forms of assistance to former slaves?
(a) The Freedman's Bureau.
(b) The NAACP.
(c) NAFTA.
(d) The Amerian Negro's Fund.

8. 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?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1986.

9. Who was the governor that was under attack in Bacon's Rebellion?
(a) Lerone Bennett Jr.
(b) George Wallace.
(c) Loic Wacquant.
(d) William Berkeley.

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

11. What word used in the Introduction refers to the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities?
(a) Egalitarian.
(b) Utilitarian.
(c) Authoritarian.
(d) Unitarian.

12. In 2005, how many drug arrests were for possession?
(a) Three out of five.
(b) Four out of five.
(c) Two out of five.
(d) One out of three.

13. When did the CIA admit that guerilla armies it actively supported in Nicaragua were smuggling crack cocaine into the United States?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1998.
(d) 2001.

14. In her Introduction, the author writes, "The impact of the drug war has been astounding. In less than 30 years, the U.S penal population exploded from around 300,000 to" how many?
(a) "More than 2 million."
(b) "More than 3 million."
(c) "Nearly 1.5 million."
(d) "Almost 1 million."

15. Where was the conflict labor camp the Parchman Farm established?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Texas.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Alberta Spruill killed in a botched SWAT raid in Harlem?

2. Whose quote opens the section "The Birth of Slavery" in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?

3. The author asserts in the Introduction that one in how many young African American men are currently under the control of the criminal justice system--in prison, in jail, on probation, or on parole?

4. Where did crack cocaine first emerge in poor black neighborhoods in the United States before spreading elsewhere?

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

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