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

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

3. What question does the author say the book explores in Chapter 1?
(a) "Why are we here?"
(b) "How did we get here?"
(c) "How do we face and address the past?"
(d) "Where do we go next?"

4. 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) 1999.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1992.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jarvious Cotton's great-grandfather die?

2. 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?

3. In 1997, the Pentagon handed over how many pieces of military equipment to local police departments?

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

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"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are "pretext stops"? How are they employed in the War on Drugs?

3. What were the impacts and repercussions of Bacon's Rebellion?

4. How does the author define "caste"? What is meant by "racial caste"?

5. What is the Ku Klux Klan? What did the Ku Klux Klan acts dictate?

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

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

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

9. 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"?

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

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