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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who wrote The Strange Career of Jim Crow?
(a) Marc Mauer.
(b) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(c) Loic Wacquant.
(d) C. Vann Woodward.

3. When was The Strange Career of Jim Crow published?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1945.

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

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

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

8. What Supreme Court Justice dissented on the ruling in Terry v. Ohio?
(a) Justice Douglas.
(b) Justice Blackmon.
(c) Justice Woodward.
(d) Justice Bennett.

9. 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?
(a) One in five.
(b) One in three.
(c) One in four.
(d) One in ten.

10. During the time she worked at the ACLU, Michelle Alexander's focus shifted from employment discrimination to what focus?
(a) Affirmative action.
(b) Education reform.
(c) Criminal justice reform.
(d) Tax reform.

11. 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 3 million."
(b) "More than 2 million."
(c) "Nearly 1.5 million."
(d) "Almost 1 million."

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

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

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

15. 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) 1890.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1880.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state supreme court issued a landmark decision in the case of Ruffin v. Commonwealth?

2. When did the American Civil War begin?

3. What Constitutional Amendment prohibits states from denying citizens due process and "equal protection of the law"?

4. 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"?

5. When was the Military Cooperation with Law Enforcement Act passed?

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