Bakersfield College
Criminal Justice 10
Quiz 3
NAME: _________________________
Date: _________________
Select the Best Answer. Use a Scantron 882E form
Chapter 3:
1. The massive Irish immigration was blamed on the overwhelming cotton crop in Ireland
during the 1840s, the widespread famine that followed, and British colonial oppression of
Irish citizens.
a. True
b. False
2. Tammany Hall was incorporated as a fraternal society in 1805 and was aligned closely
with the newly emerging independent party.
a. True
b. False
3. In the 1930s, Kansas City became known as the crime corridor.
a. True
b. False
4. Thomas Pendergast was convicted in 1939 on charges of tax evasion and died in 1945.
a. True
b. False
5. Al Capone caused Chicago to be epitomized as one of the most ruthless and crimeridden towns in the nation.
a. True
b. False
6. “Big Jim” Colosimo was hung and fed to alligators in Boss Croker’s casino.
a. True
b. False
7. In January 2011, local, state, and federal law enforcement arrested 130 members of
New York’s Mafia (La Cosa Nostra).
a. True
b. False
8. New York City is probably the best-known example of the emergence of Italian
American organized crime in a single city.
a. True
b. False
Chapter 4:
9. Beginning in the 1990s, ___________________ reappeared as an organized criminal
enterprise, particularly in shipping lanes off the coasts of Southeast Asia and Africa.
a. organized brothels
b. gambling casinos
c. maritime piracy
d. drug interdiction
10. By the 1940s and 1950s ____________ was as entrenched in southern locales—such
as the cities of New Orleans, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi, and in rural areas
across the South—as it was anywhere in the country.
a. piracy
b. organized crime
c. prohibition inhibition
d. hijacking
11. According to organized crime literature, ______________ for illicit gambling, liquor,
sex, and other goods and services spurred the development of criminal organizations.
a. government funding
b. politicians in favor
c. public votes
d. citizen demand
12. Historically, which of the following was central to organized crime in both the North
and South?
a. Large populations
b. Pretty prostitutes
c. Political corruption
d. Neighboring countries
13. In the early nineteenth century, several gangs operated across the southern states as
________ pirates.
a. air
b. land
c. electronic
d. brothel
14. How did pirate networks obtain shipping schedules and the routes that they used to
coordinate their attacks?
a. They would torture the schedulers for information.
b. They committed night time burglaries.
c. They used corrupt officials.
d. They would trade other pirates for the information.
15. Whose head was cut off and boiled and placed on a post for passersby to see?
a. Wiley “Little” Harpe
b. Micah “Big” Harpe
c. Boss “Slim” Skaggs
d. Joshua “Small” Horne
16. Who disposed of his victims by disemboweling them, filling their stomach cavities
with stones and sand, and sinking them in a convenient river?
a. Wiley Harpe
b. James Copeland
c. Bras Coupe
d. John Murrell
17. By the time of the _____________, every major U.S. city and the relatively sparsely
populated South had well-established vice districts catering to the trade in liquor,
prostitution, and gambling.
a. Civil War
b. First World war
c. Viet Nam War
d. Prohibition
18. Procuring _____________ for the prostitution trade was a major vice industry in New
Orleans and throughout the South.
a. brothels
b. beds
c. clients
d. young girls
19. Perhaps one of the most important professional criminals in New Orleans was Philip
Oster, a burglar and gang leader who ran a network of thieves and counterfeiters that
were one of the most successful ______________________________ in U.S. history.
a. tax write-offs
b. money launderers
c. counterfeiting rings
d. hard to catch
20. Who shut down the brothels in Galveston and New Orleans in 1917?
a. Elliot Ness
b. The governor
c. The navy
d. The firefighters union
21. At one time there was so much competition that some women who were relegated to
street prostitution carried ____________ on their heads.
a. mattresses
b. signs
c. condoms
d. discount notes
22. Delia Swift, better known as Bridget Fury, operated a bordello that opened in 1859,
but before that she had developed a talent for ________________, which she turned into
a profitable trade at local dance halls.
a. poker
b. pick pocketing
c. dancing
d. kidnapping
23. In the late nineteenth century, a state law enforcement crackdown on moonshining in
Cleburne County, Alabama, resulted in the arrest of about _______ of the county’s
population.
a. 10%
b. 25%
c. 50%
d. 75%
24. How long ago did Georgia become highly organized in bootlegging and
moonshining?
a. Not until 1920
b. Georgia never did
c. As long ago as 1888
d. During World War I
25. Just like the Dead Rabbits, the Five Pointers, and the Plug Uglies in New York, the
New Orleans gangs played a key role in the development of organized crime.
a. True
b. False
26. Bras Coupe was once a slave named Squire, but later became a dancer and even later
became the organizer of a gang of escaped slaves.
a. True
b. False
27. Eugene Bunch was a school teacher but decided that robbing trains was a more
rewarding occupation.
a. True
b. False
28. The most spirited attempt to clean up Natchez-Under-the-Hill degenerated to violence
and vigilantism in 1835, when reformers attacked lower Natchez and killed a number of
gamblers.
a. True
b. False
29. One of the most successful of the southern gambling organizations of the nineteenth
century operated outside New Orleans and off the rivers and was headed by a New
Yorker named Zachariah Simmons.
a. True
b. False
30. In the early nineteenth century, a prostitution brothel in New Orleans was pioneered
by Annie Christmas, a free black woman who operated a floating “hogpen” near the New
Orleans levee.
a. True
b. False