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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Schneckloth v. Bustamonte decided?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1982.

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

3. 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) 1988.
(d) 1999.

4. What sociologist is cited in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste" as stating that each reincarnation of racial caste "is less total, less capable of encompassing and controlling the entire race"?
(a) Loic Wacquant.
(b) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(c) Martin Luther King Jr.
(d) Marc Mauer.

5. When did the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals release a recommendation that "no new institutions for adults should be build and existing institutions for juveniles should be closed"?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1990.

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

7. Who wrote The Strange Career of Jim Crow?
(a) Loic Wacquant.
(b) Marc Mauer.
(c) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(d) C. Vann Woodward.

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

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

10. Approximately how many people were in prison or jail for a drug offense in 1980?
(a) 29,350.
(b) 25,900.
(c) 41,100.
(d) 35,250.

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

12. Between 1980 and 2000, the number of people incarcerated in prisons in the U.S. went from about 300,000 to how many?
(a) About 1 million.
(b) Over 3 million.
(c) Over 4 million.
(d) Over 2 million.

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

14. 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) "Pretext stop."
(c) "Suspicion stop."
(d) "Context stop."

15. 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?
(a) Two-thirds.
(b) Three-fourths.
(c) One-third.
(d) One-half.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "caste" refer to?

2. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

3. 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?

4. When was Operation Pipeline launched?

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

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