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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What years comprised the Reconstruction Era?
(a) 1864-1872.
(b) 1866-1880.
(c) 1865-1877.
(d) 1866-1875.

3. Where did Nathaniel Bacon live as a property owner?
(a) Jamestown, Virginia.
(b) Province of New Jersey.
(c) Bermuda.
(d) Roanoke, Virginia.

4. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) January 1, 1866.
(b) January 1, 1863.
(c) January 1, 1865.
(d) January 1, 1864.

5. What are the three major racialized systems of control adopted by the United States toward African Americans, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) Slavery, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration.
(b) Slavery, voting rights, and the War on Drugs.
(c) Slavery, economic inequality, and injustice.
(d) Slavery, poverty, and educational oppression.

6. What percentage of all Southern elected officials were black in 1870?
(a) 5%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 15%.

7. When was the ruling for Terry v. Ohio decided?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1988.

8. 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"?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(d) Martin Luther King Jr.

9. What was the dominant means of securing cheap labor in the early colonial period in America, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?
(a) Indentured servitude.
(b) Feudalism.
(c) White slavery.
(d) Native American slavery.

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

11. Who was the executive director of the Sentencing Project when the book was written?
(a) Jason Alexander.
(b) Andrew Stabler.
(c) Richard Roth.
(d) Marc Mauer.

12. What U.S. Constitutional Amendment provided that the right to vote should not be denied on account of race?
(a) The 14th Amendment.
(b) The 16th Amendment.
(c) The 15th Amendment.
(d) The 12th Amendment.

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

14. When did the American Civil War begin?
(a) March 1, 1863.
(b) September 16, 1862.
(c) April 12, 1861.
(d) January 1, 1866.

15. When was Operation Pipeline launched?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1984.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people does the author say are in prison or jail for a drug offense today in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?

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

3. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaw?

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

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

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