Quiz #1 - September 2

 
QUIZ 1 (September 2)                               NAME_______________


1. The Vice-President of the U.S. is:

   **a) Joe Biden      
   b) Donald Rumsfeld
   c) John Ashcroft
   d) Dick Cheney
   e) Carl Rove  

2. A crime that carries a potential sentence of one year  or less, and is usually served in county jails, and also involves fines under a specified amount, is called:

   a) A "Just dessert"
   **b) A misdemeanor
   c) A peccadillo
   d) A tort
   e) A quasi-felony

3. According to lecture, the cost of keeping an adult in prison in Illinois is roughly:

   a) $15,600
   b) $18,900
   **c) $22,000
   d) $28,300
   e) $35,700

4. According to the instructor, the prison population in Illinois is about:

   a) 22,000
   b) 33,500
   **c) 45,000
   d) 56,700
   e) 91,300

5. The instructor's name is:
 
   a) James Thompson
   **b) Jim Thomas 
   c) Todd Clear
   d) Jim Morrison
   e) Axl Rose
.

6. The percentage of Illinois prisoners entering the system illiterate is about:

   a) 10 percent
   b) 22 Percent
   **c) 33 percent
   d) 48 percent
   e) 59 percent

7. In Illinois (and, roughly, the US as well), about 75 percent of inmates
in state and federal prisons will be out in roughly:

   a) 18 months
   **b) Three years
   c) Five years
   d) Eight years
   e) Whenever the parole board lets them out

8. Some people think that the death penalty will deter murders by
executing the most violent people who are on death row.
The INDEPENDENT VARIABLE is:

   **a) Death Penalty
   b) Violent people
   c) Death Row
   d) Murders
   e) Could be either b) or c)

9. Roughly how much do we spend in the US on corrections in the U.S. this year?

   a) $27 Billion
   b) $47 Billion
   **c) $70 Billion
   d) $97 Billion
   e) $117 Billion

10. The main two authors of our text book are:

   **a) Clear and Cole
   b) Smith and Wesson
   c) Thomas and Melville
   d) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
   e) Rosemary and Thyme



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