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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What was Terrance Bostick found to be carrying on a Greyhound Bus in the case of Florida v. Bostick?
(a) A pound of quaaludes.
(b) A pound of marijuana.
(c) A pound of cocaine.
(d) A pound of heroin.

7. What term is used in the book to describe "a traffic stop motivated not by any desire to enforce traffic laws, but instead motivated by a desire to hunt for drugs in the absence of any evidence of illegal drug activity"?
(a) "Suspicion stop."
(b) "Pretext stop."
(c) "Prevention stop."
(d) "Context stop."

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

9. 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) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(b) Martin Luther King Jr.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) Malcolm X.

10. 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.

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

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

13. What state supreme court issued a landmark decision in the case of Ruffin v. Commonwealth?
(a) The Arkansas Supreme Court.
(b) The Louisiana Supreme Court.
(c) The Virginia Supreme Court.
(d) The Mississippi Supreme Court.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. During the time she worked at the ACLU, Michelle Alexander's focus shifted from employment discrimination to what focus?

3. According to the author in the Introduction, how many people are in prison in the United States per 100,000?

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

5. When was the ruling for Terry v. Ohio decided?

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