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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 hereditary classes.
(b) A system of dividing society into educational classes.
(c) A system of dividing society into economic classes.
(d) A system of dividing society into racial classes.

2. Who was the governor that was under attack in Bacon's Rebellion?
(a) Loic Wacquant.
(b) George Wallace.
(c) Lerone Bennett Jr.
(d) William Berkeley.

3. When were Michael Whren and James Brown stopped by plainclothes officers and searched?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1988.

4. Approximately how many people have been arrested for drug offenses since the drug war began, according to the author in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?
(a) Over 31 million.
(b) About 20 million.
(c) Over 35 million.
(d) About 10 million.

5. The author states in her Introduction, "Conversations about class are resisted in part because there is a tendency to imagine that one's class reflects upon" what?
(a) "One's character."
(b) "One's income."
(c) One's history."
(d) "One's race."

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. According to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste," what "was the device employed to protect the institution of slavery and the political power of slaveholding states" when the Constitution was written?

3. 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"?

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

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 are "pretext stops"? How are they employed in the War on Drugs?

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

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

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

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

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