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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. Where did Nathaniel Bacon live as a property owner?
(a) Province of New Jersey.
(b) Jamestown, Virginia.
(c) Roanoke, Virginia.
(d) Bermuda.

2. When did Ronald Reagan officially announce the War on Drugs?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1985.

3. 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 history."
(d) "One's income."

4. 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) 1990.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1976.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does the author say the book explores in Chapter 1?

2. When was the Military Cooperation with Law Enforcement Act passed?

3. What percentage of all Southern elected officials were black in 1870?

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

5. What are the three major racialized systems of control adopted by the United States toward African Americans, according to the author in the Introduction?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How has the U.S. penal population changed from 1980 to today?

3. 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"?

4. How does the author use Jarvious Cotton as an example in the Introduction to The New Jim Crow?

5. What was dedided in the case of California v. Acevedo?

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

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

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

9. When did Terry v. Ohio go to the Supreme Court? What was the ruling?

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

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