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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people does the author say are in prison or jail for a drug offense today in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?
(a) Approximately two million.
(b) Approximately six million.
(c) Approximately half a million.
(d) Approximately 100,000.

2. When did the American Civil War begin?
(a) September 16, 1862.
(b) March 1, 1863.
(c) April 12, 1861.
(d) January 1, 1866.

3. 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"?
(a) November, 2003.
(b) August, 2005.
(c) March, 1999.
(d) July, 1993.

4. When was Alberta Spruill killed in a botched SWAT raid in Harlem?
(a) April 12, 1995.
(b) May 16, 2003.
(c) June 13, 2000.
(d) September 16, 2006.

5. 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?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1880.

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

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

8. When did the CIA admit that guerilla armies it actively supported in Nicaragua were smuggling crack cocaine into the United States?
(a) 2001.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1992.

9. 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) "Poverty."
(b) "Genocide."
(c) "Racism."
(d) "Confidentiality."

10. What Constitutional Amendment prohibits states from denying citizens due process and "equal protection of the law"?
(a) The 14th Amendment.
(b) The 12th Amendment.
(c) The 13th Amendment.
(d) The 15th Amendment.

11. What percentage of all Southern elected officials were black in 1870?
(a) 20%.
(b) 5%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 15%.

12. When did California pass Proposition 184, the Three Strikes Law?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1988.

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

14. How did Jarvious Cotton's great-grandfather die?
(a) He was killed in an automobile accident.
(b) He was beaten to death by fellow prisoners.
(c) He was beaten to death by the Ku Klux Klan.
(d) He was killed in a factory accident.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did the American Civil War end by proclamation?

3. When was the ruling for Terry v. Ohio decided?

4. When was Schneckloth v. Bustamonte decided?

5. When was The Strange Career of Jim Crow published?

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