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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to criminologist Peter Kraska, how many cases of flawed paramilitary raids reached the appellate level between 1989 and 2001?
(a) 290.
(b) 350.
(c) 620.
(d) 780.

3. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) January 1, 1866.
(b) January 1, 1864.
(c) January 1, 1863.
(d) January 1, 1865.

4. What state supreme court issued a landmark decision in the case of Ruffin v. Commonwealth?
(a) The Virginia Supreme Court.
(b) The Arkansas Supreme Court.
(c) The Louisiana Supreme Court.
(d) The Mississippi Supreme Court.

5. Who described The Strange Career of Jim Crow as the "historical bible of the Civil Rights Movement"?
(a) Martin Luther King Jr.
(b) Malcolm X.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) W. E. B. Du Bois.

6. 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) 1890.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1870.

7. In her Introduction, the author writes, "The impact of the drug war has been astounding. In less than 30 years, the U.S penal population exploded from around 300,000 to" how many?
(a) "Nearly 1.5 million."
(b) "More than 3 million."
(c) "More than 2 million."
(d) "Almost 1 million."

8. The author states in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste," "Any candid observer of American racial history must acknowledge that racism is highly" what?
(a) "Adaptable."
(b) "Lamentable."
(c) "Obtuse."
(d) "Rigid."

9. When was Operation Pipeline launched?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1995.

10. 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"?
(a) Feudalism.
(b) Indentured servitude.
(c) White slavery.
(d) Native American slavery.

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

12. In 2005, how many drug arrests were for possession?
(a) One out of three.
(b) Four out of five.
(c) Three out of five.
(d) Two out of five.

13. What years comprised the Reconstruction Era?
(a) 1866-1880.
(b) 1866-1875.
(c) 1864-1872.
(d) 1865-1877.

14. Where was Terrance Bostick traveling on a Greyhound bus when he was arrested?
(a) To Atlanta.
(b) To Little Rock.
(c) To Memphis.
(d) To Los Angeles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Bacon's Rebellion take place?

2. What Supreme Court Justice dissented on the ruling in Terry v. Ohio?

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

4. 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?

5. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaw?

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