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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 did Bacon's Rebellion take place?
(a) 1692.
(b) 1723.
(c) 1676.
(d) 1720.

2. Where was Terrance Bostick traveling on a Greyhound bus when he was arrested?
(a) To Memphis.
(b) To Los Angeles.
(c) To Atlanta.
(d) To Little Rock.

3. Where was the conflict labor camp the Parchman Farm established?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Texas.
(d) Mississippi.

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

5. When was the major conference held called "Why We Can't Wait: Reversing the Retreat on Civil Rights"?
(a) October, 2007.
(b) July, 2001.
(c) June, 2004.
(d) March, 2008.

Short Answer 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?

2. When was the Military Cooperation with Law Enforcement Act passed?

3. Whose quote opens the section "The Birth of Slavery" in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?

4. What group of people is the focus of The New Jim Crow, according to the author in her Introduction?

5. 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"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the concept of "race" emerge in America, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?

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

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

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

6. How has the U.S. penal population changed from 1980 to today?

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

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

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

10. What does "Jim Crow" refer to?

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