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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What question does the author say the book explores in Chapter 1?
(a) "How do we face and address the past?"
(b) "Where do we go next?"
(c) "How did we get here?"
(d) "Why are we here?"

5. What term became ascribed to American Indians as a way of justifying their eradication, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?
(a) "Natives."
(b) "Indians."
(c) "Savages."
(d) "Blacks."

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

7. What agency arose in the Reconstruction Era that was charged with the responsibility of providing food, clothing, fuel, and other forms of assistance to former slaves?
(a) The Freedman's Bureau.
(b) NAFTA.
(c) The NAACP.
(d) The Amerian Negro's Fund.

8. 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.

9. How many people does the author say are in prison or jail for a drug offense today in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?
(a) Approximately half a million.
(b) Approximately six million.
(c) Approximately 100,000.
(d) Approximately two million.

10. When did the American Civil War begin?
(a) April 12, 1861.
(b) September 16, 1862.
(c) March 1, 1863.
(d) January 1, 1866.

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

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

13. When was Operation Pipeline launched?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1984.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the dominant means of securing cheap labor in the early colonial period in America, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?

3. What word used in the Introduction refers to the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities?

4. When did California modify the Three Strikes Law with Proposition 36?

5. When did the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals release a recommendation that "no new institutions for adults should be build and existing institutions for juveniles should be closed"?

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