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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. Where did crack cocaine first emerge in poor black neighborhoods in the United States before spreading elsewhere?
(a) Tuscon.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York.

2. The author asserts in the Introduction that one in how many young African American men are currently under the control of the criminal justice system--in prison, in jail, on probation, or on parole?
(a) One in four.
(b) One in ten.
(c) One in five.
(d) One in three.

3. 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) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) Martin Luther King Jr.

4. Who wrote Slavery by Another Name?
(a) C. Vann Woodward.
(b) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(c) Douglas Blackmon.
(d) Loic Wacquant.

5. 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?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Authoritarianism.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Federalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were Michael Whren and James Brown stopped by plainclothes officers and searched?

2. Between 1980 and 2000, the number of people incarcerated in prisons in the U.S. went from about 300,000 to how many?

3. In 2005, how many drug arrests were for possession?

4. 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?

5. What does the author describe printed on a bright orange poster that opened her mind to the themes of the book in the Introduction?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was dedided in the case of California v. Acevedo?

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

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

5. 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"?

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

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

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

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

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

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