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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When was the Military Cooperation with Law Enforcement Act passed?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1991.
2. What Constitutional Amendment prohibits states from denying citizens due process and "equal protection of the law"?
(a) The 15th Amendment.
(b) The 14th Amendment.
(c) The 12th Amendment.
(d) The 13th Amendment.
3. According to the author in the Introduction, how many people are in prison in the United States per 100,000?
(a) 500.
(b) 250.
(c) 560.
(d) 750.
4. In 1997, the Pentagon handed over how many pieces of military equipment to local police departments?
(a) About 3 million.
(b) Over 1.8 million.
(c) Over 1.2 million.
(d) Over 1.6 million.
5. When did California pass Proposition 184, the Three Strikes Law?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1994.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where was Terrance Bostick traveling on a Greyhound bus when he was arrested?
2. When was the ruling in Florida v. Bostick decided?
3. Who was the executive director of the Sentencing Project when the book was written?
4. When did the CIA admit that guerilla armies it actively supported in Nicaragua were smuggling crack cocaine into the United States?
5. What does "caste" refer to?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the Ku Klux Klan? What did the Ku Klux Klan acts dictate?
2. What was Operation Pipeline and what impacts did it have?
3. What was dedided in the case of California v. Acevedo?
4. What does "Jim Crow" refer to?
5. What did the Supreme Court case of Florida v. Bostick establish?
6. What led to the ermergence of slavery as the primary means for labor in the South?
7. What percentages do drug offenses account for in the rise of the federal inmate population and state prisoners, according to the author in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?
8. How does the author define "caste"? What is meant by "racial caste"?
9. How do incarceration rates in the U.S. compare with those in other countries across the globe?
10. What were the "black codes" and what impact did they have?
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