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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) 1989.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1986.

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

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

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

5. In the Urban League's 1990 report, "The State of Black America," it stated, "There is at least one concept that must be recognized if one is to see the pervasive and insidious nature of the drug problem for the African American community. Though difficult to accept, that is the concept of" what?
(a) "Racism."
(b) "Genocide."
(c) "Confidentiality."
(d) "Poverty."

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the ruling in Florida v. Bostick decided?

2. When was Alberta Spruill killed in a botched SWAT raid in Harlem?

3. During the time she worked at the ACLU, Michelle Alexander's focus shifted from employment discrimination to what focus?

4. 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"?

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"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Federalism and what role has it played in racial oppression, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?

2. What were the "black codes" and what impact did they have?

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

4. How do incarceration rates in the U.S. compare with those in other countries across the globe?

5. What did the Supreme Court case of Florida v. Bostick establish?

6. What does "Jim Crow" refer to?

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

8. What legislative achievements were seen in the Reconstruction Era?

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

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

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