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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What U.S. Constitutional Amendment provided that the right to vote should not be denied on account of race?
(a) The 15th Amendment.
(b) The 14th Amendment.
(c) The 12th Amendment.
(d) The 16th Amendment.

4. What are the three major racialized systems of control adopted by the United States toward African Americans, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) Slavery, poverty, and educational oppression.
(b) Slavery, voting rights, and the War on Drugs.
(c) Slavery, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration.
(d) Slavery, economic inequality, and injustice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the home of Scott Bryant raided by police in Dodge City, Wisconsin?

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

3. Whose quote opens the section "The Birth of Slavery" in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?

4. 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"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the Supreme Court case of Florida v. Bostick establish?

2. What was Operation Pipeline and what impacts did it have?

3. How are the circumstances of Robert Robinette's arrest described in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?

4. How did the concept of "race" emerge in America, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?

5. What is Federalism and what role has it played in racial oppression, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?

6. How do incarceration rates in the U.S. compare with those in other countries across the globe?

7. What percentages do drug offenses account for in the rise of the federal inmate population and state prisoners, according to the author in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?

8. What does the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution declare?

9. What were the "black codes" and what impact did they have?

10. What was concluded in the case of Brown v. Board of Education?

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