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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Brown give as his occupation?

2. What is the name of the officer who arrested Corky?

3. Which position does Brown seek?

4. What is Roland's surname?

5. Who was one of Brown's bodyguards?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Brown say in his closing speech in Chapter 12?

2. What role does Brown play in the UCLA rally?

3. According to Brown, why does he like Roland Zanzibar?

4. Describe Brown's time at the New County jail at the end of the section.

5. What information does the juror give Brown in Chapter 12?

6. What does Brown promise to do after the trial in Chapter 15?

7. How was Zanzibar killed?

8. Why is the courtroom watching a color film at the beginning of Chapter 15?

9. Why does Brown think it is a good idea for him to write a book?

10. What problems does Brown say he has with Grand Juries?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following trials and examine how its outcome affected the Chicano Movement: The Tooner Flats Seven,The St. Basil Twenty One, and The East Los Angeles Thirteen.

Essay Topic 2

What were Nixon's views on the Chicano Movement? What effect did his election to President have on the movement?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the author's writing style. How would you describe the author's prose style? What kind of vocabulary does he use? What meaning does the author's style give to the story?

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