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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. When does the author describe the raid at Stratford High School in Goose Creek, South Carolina as having taken place in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?
(a) March, 1999.
(b) November, 2003.
(c) July, 1993.
(d) August, 2005.

2. What Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures?
(a) The 16th Amendment.
(b) The 2nd Amendment.
(c) The 4th Amendment.
(d) The 3rd Amendment.

3. 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) Marc Mauer.
(b) Loic Wacquant.
(c) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(d) Martin Luther King Jr.

4. 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 12th Amendment.
(c) The 14th Amendment.
(d) The 16th Amendment.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did a federal grand jury determine that the Ku Klux Klan was a "terrorist organization" and issue hundreds of indictments for crimes of violence and terrorism?

2. According to criminologist Peter Kraska, how many cases of flawed paramilitary raids reached the appellate level between 1989 and 2001?

3. 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"?

4. What Supreme Court Justice said of the Florida v. Bostick case that "the basis of the decision to single out particular passengers during a suspicionless sweep is less likely to be inarticulate than unspeakable"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does a "consent search" refer to?

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

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

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

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

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