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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Between 1980 and 2000, the number of people incarcerated in prisons in the U.S. went from about 300,000 to how many?
(a) Over 3 million.
(b) Over 2 million.
(c) Over 4 million.
(d) About 1 million.

2. When did California modify the Three Strikes Law with Proposition 36?
(a) 2013.
(b) 2015.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2012.

3. 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) "Prevention stop."
(b) "Suspicion stop."
(c) "Pretext stop."
(d) "Context stop."

4. 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) "Almost 1 million."
(c) "Nearly 1.5 million."
(d) "More than 2 million."

5. What does "caste" refer to?
(a) A system of dividing society into hereditary 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 racial classes.

6. Approximately how many people have been arrested for drug offenses since the drug war began, according to the author in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?
(a) About 10 million.
(b) Over 35 million.
(c) Over 31 million.
(d) About 20 million.

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

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

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

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

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

12. According to the author in the Introduction, how many people are in prison in the United States per 100,000?
(a) 500.
(b) 560.
(c) 750.
(d) 250.

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

14. How many SWAT team deployments were sent out for paramilitary drug raids in 2001?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 32,000.
(d) 40,000.

15. When does the author describe the raid at Stratford High School in Goose Creek, South Carolina as having taken place in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?
(a) March, 1999.
(b) July, 1993.
(c) August, 2005.
(d) November, 2003.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What are the three major racialized systems of control adopted by the United States toward African Americans, according to the author in the Introduction?

3. In the Introduction, the author attests that how many people in Germany are in prison for every 100,000 adults and children?

4. The author states in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste," "Any candid observer of American racial history must acknowledge that racism is highly" what?

5. 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?

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