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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 was the home of Scott Bryant raided by police in Dodge City, Wisconsin?
(a) March, 1999.
(b) April, 1995.
(c) July, 1993.
(d) June, 2000.

3. By the end of 2007, how many Americans were behind bars, on probation, or on parole, according to the author in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?
(a) About 3 million.
(b) Over 7 million.
(c) About 5 million.
(d) Over 8 million.

4. 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) 1999.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1992.

5. What Constitutional Amendment prohibits states from denying citizens due process and "equal protection of the law"?
(a) The 15th Amendment.
(b) The 13th Amendment.
(c) The 12th Amendment.
(d) The 14th Amendment.

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

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

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

9. When was the Military Cooperation with Law Enforcement Act passed?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1981.

10. According to criminologist Peter Kraska, how many cases of flawed paramilitary raids reached the appellate level between 1989 and 2001?
(a) 290.
(b) 620.
(c) 350.
(d) 780.

11. How did Jarvious Cotton's great-grandfather die?
(a) He was killed in a factory accident.
(b) He was killed in an automobile accident.
(c) He was beaten to death by the Ku Klux Klan.
(d) He was beaten to death by fellow prisoners.

12. What Supreme Court Justice said of the Florida v. Bostick case that "the basis of the decision to single out particular passengers during a suspicionless sweep is less likely to be inarticulate than unspeakable"?
(a) Justice Thurgood Marshall.
(b) Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(c) Justice William Brennan.
(d) Justice Earl Warren.

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

14. 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) Marc Mauer.
(b) Loic Wacquant.
(c) Martin Luther King Jr.
(d) W. E. B. Du Bois.

15. When was the ruling in Florida v. Bostick decided?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1996.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Slavery by Another Name?

2. What Supreme Court Justice dissented on the ruling in Terry v. Ohio?

3. What was Terrance Bostick found to be carrying on a Greyhound Bus in the case of Florida v. Bostick?

4. When was The Strange Career of Jim Crow published?

5. When did California pass Proposition 184, the Three Strikes Law?

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