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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 was Terrance Bostick found to be carrying on a Greyhound Bus in the case of Florida v. Bostick?
(a) A pound of cocaine.
(b) A pound of heroin.
(c) A pound of quaaludes.
(d) A pound of marijuana.

2. What Supreme Court Justice dissented on the ruling in Terry v. Ohio?
(a) Justice Woodward.
(b) Justice Douglas.
(c) Justice Bennett.
(d) Justice Blackmon.

3. When was the home of Scott Bryant raided by police in Dodge City, Wisconsin?
(a) June, 2000.
(b) April, 1995.
(c) July, 1993.
(d) March, 1999.

4. When was the ruling for Terry v. Ohio decided?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1973.

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"?
(a) "Suspicion stop."
(b) "Pretext stop."
(c) "Context stop."
(d) "Prevention stop."

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Bacon's Rebellion take place?

2. What years comprised the Reconstruction Era?

3. The author states in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste," "Any candid observer of American racial history must acknowledge that racism is highly" what?

4. The author asserts in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown" that drug offenses alone account for what fraction of the rise in the federal inmate population between 1985 and 2000?

5. What Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does a "consent search" refer to?

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

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

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 does "Jim Crow" refer to?

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

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

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

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

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