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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What word used in the Introduction refers to the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities?
(a) Utilitarian.
(b) Authoritarian.
(c) Unitarian.
(d) Egalitarian.

3. When did Bacon's Rebellion take place?
(a) 1676.
(b) 1692.
(c) 1720.
(d) 1723.

4. The author states in her Introduction, "Conversations about class are resisted in part because there is a tendency to imagine that one's class reflects upon" what?
(a) "One's race."
(b) "One's character."
(c) "One's income."
(d) One's history."

5. When did the American Civil War end by proclamation?
(a) January 1, 1866.
(b) September 16, 1862.
(c) March 1, 1863.
(d) May 9, 1865.

6. What agency arose in the Reconstruction Era that was charged with the responsibility of providing food, clothing, fuel, and other forms of assistance to former slaves?
(a) The Freedman's Bureau.
(b) NAFTA.
(c) The NAACP.
(d) The Amerian Negro's Fund.

7. 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) "Confidentiality."
(c) "Racism."
(d) "Genocide."

8. When did Congress, at the behest of Ronald Reagan, revise the program that provides federal aid to law enforcement, renaming it the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1988.

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

10. When were Michael Whren and James Brown stopped by plainclothes officers and searched?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1982.

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

12. Why is Jarvious Cotton unable to vote, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) He is a felon.
(b) He is illiterate.
(c) He is unable to pay poll taxes.
(d) He is a slave.

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

14. Whose quote opens the section "The Birth of Slavery" in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?
(a) Lerone Bennett Jr.'s.
(b) Martin Luther King Jr.'s.
(c) Malcolm X's.
(d) Frederick Douglass's.

15. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaw?
(a) Segregation in public schools and buildings.
(b) Discrimination against African Americans in relation to voting rights.
(c) Discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
(d) Slavery in the Southern United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did California modify the Three Strikes Law with Proposition 36?

2. 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"?

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

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

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

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