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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: "The Lockdown".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures?
(a) The 16th Amendment.
(b) The 3rd Amendment.
(c) The 2nd Amendment.
(d) The 4th Amendment.

2. When was The Strange Career of Jim Crow published?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1959.

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

4. 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 five.
(c) One in ten.
(d) One in three.

5. What question does the author say the book explores in Chapter 1?
(a) "Where do we go next?"
(b) "How do we face and address the past?"
(c) "How did we get here?"
(d) "Why are we here?"

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the American Civil War begin?

2. When does the author describe the raid at Stratford High School in Goose Creek, South Carolina as having taken place in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?

3. When did the CIA admit that guerilla armies it actively supported in Nicaragua were smuggling crack cocaine into the United States?

4. What was Terrance Bostick found to be carrying on a Greyhound Bus in the case of Florida v. Bostick?

5. Where was Terrance Bostick traveling on a Greyhound bus when he was arrested?

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