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

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"?
(a) Native American slavery.
(b) White slavery.
(c) Indentured servitude.
(d) Feudalism.

3. 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) August, 2005.
(c) July, 1993.
(d) November, 2003.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What years comprised the Reconstruction Era?

2. When did the American Civil War end by proclamation?

3. When was the major conference held called "Why We Can't Wait: Reversing the Retreat on Civil Rights"?

4. How did Jarvious Cotton's great-grandfather die?

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the circumstances of Robert Robinette's arrest described in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?

2. What is the Ku Klux Klan? What did the Ku Klux Klan acts dictate?

3. What was Operation Pipeline and what impacts did it have?

4. When did Terry v. Ohio go to the Supreme Court? What was the ruling?

5. What obstacle does the Barack Obama presidency present for civil rights advocates, according to the author in the Introduction?

6. What does the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution declare?

7. What were the impacts and repercussions of Bacon's Rebellion?

8. Who declared the "War on Drugs"? When was it declared?

9. How does the author define "caste"? What is meant by "racial caste"?

10. What was concluded in the case of Brown v. Board of Education?

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