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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1997, the Pentagon handed over how many pieces of military equipment to local police departments?
(a) Over 1.8 million.
(b) Over 1.2 million.
(c) About 3 million.
(d) Over 1.6 million.

2. When were Michael Whren and James Brown stopped by plainclothes officers and searched?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1993.

3. What group of people is the focus of The New Jim Crow, according to the author in her Introduction?
(a) African American women.
(b) Latinos and other immigrants.
(c) White American men.
(d) African American men.

4. When did California pass Proposition 184, the Three Strikes Law?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1986.

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

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

7. Approximately how many people were in prison or jail for a drug offense in 1980?
(a) 25,900.
(b) 41,100.
(c) 35,250.
(d) 29,350.

8. In what year did a federal grand jury determine that the Ku Klux Klan was a "terrorist organization" and issue hundreds of indictments for crimes of violence and terrorism?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1890.

9. Where was Terrance Bostick traveling on a Greyhound bus when he was arrested?
(a) To Atlanta.
(b) To Memphis.
(c) To Little Rock.
(d) To Los Angeles.

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

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

12. Where did crack cocaine first emerge in poor black neighborhoods in the United States before spreading elsewhere?
(a) New York.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Tuscon.

13. 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) Federalism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Authoritarianism.
(d) Democracy.

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

15. Why is Jarvious Cotton unable to vote, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) He is a felon.
(b) He is unable to pay poll taxes.
(c) He is a slave.
(d) He is illiterate.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the American Civil War begin?

2. What percentage of all Southern elected officials were black in 1870?

3. When did the American Civil War end by proclamation?

4. What does the author describe printed on a bright orange poster that opened her mind to the themes of the book in the Introduction?

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

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