Organized Crime 10th International Edition By Howard Abadinsky – Test Bank

CHAPTER TWELVE
Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking
Test Bank

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. The earliest “war against drugs” in the United States was in response to:
a. opium
b. cocaine
c. marijuana
d. LSD

ANS: A LO: 2 REF: 279

2. Around the turn of the eighteenth century, a German pharmacist poured liquid ammonia over opium and obtained an alkaloid, a white powder that he found to be many times more powerful than opium. He named the substance:
a. heroin
b. morphium
c. marijuana
d. ecstasy

ANS: B LO: 2 REF: 279

3. At the turn of the twentieth century, diacetylmorphine was synthesized, creating the most powerful of the opiates, __________, marketed as a nonhabit-forming analgesic to take the place of morphine.
a. heroin
b. morphium
c. marijuana
d. opium

ANS: A LO: 2 REF: 279

4. Opiates, including morphine and heroin, were readily available in the United States until:
a. 1900
b. 1910
c. 1914
d. 1929

ANS: C LO: 2 REF: 279

5. The American response to drugs in the twentieth century was directly related to international affairs and trade with:
a. Afghanistan
b. Pakistan
c. Japan
d. China

ANS: D LO: 4 REF: 280

6. In 1887, Congress responded to obligations imposed on the United States by a Chinese-American commercial treaty by banning the importation of _________ by Chinese subjects.
a. opium for smoking
b. marijuana
c. barbiturates
d. morphine

ANS: A LO: 2 | 3 | 4 REF: 281 | 282

7. In 1901, Congress enacted the __________, which prohibited the sale of alcohol and opium to “aboriginal tribes and uncivilized races.”
a. Native Races Act
b. Harrison Act
c. Thompson Act
d. Indigenous Act

ANS: A LO: 3 REF: 282

8. The ___________ provided that persons in the business of dealing in drugs covered by the act—including opium derivatives and cocaine—were required to register yearly and to pay a special annual tax of $1.
a. Native Races Act
b. Harrison Act
c. Thompson Act
d. Indigenous Act

ANS: B LO: 2 | 4 REF: 283

9. In 1919, the use of taxing authority to regulate drugs was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in:
a. Gregg v. Georgia
b. Worchester v. Georgia
c. United States v. Doremus
d. Pray v. State

ANS: C LO: 2 REF: 283

10. The ________ was in charge of upholding the Harrison Act.
a. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
b. The President of the United States
c. The State Treasurer
d. The Secretary of Defense

ANS: A LO: 2 REF: 283

11. According to Abadinsky, drug barons base their operations in:
a. urban areas
b. remote safe havens
c. rural regions
d. all of these

ANS: B LO: 5 REF: 286