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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Here's A Nobody, Magic | Here's A Nobody, Hammer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the "curious people"?
(a) They are the kids of Los Angeles who have an overwhelming curiosity about everything around them.
(b) They are the bag ladies loitering the streets of Los Angeles.
(c) They are the old ladies in the neighborhood of Los Angeles, who tend to pry in all the happenings around them.
(d) They are the gangs of Los Angeles whom Stanley K. Sheinbaum had a chance to talk to.

2. Particularly for Salas, when does he realize that gringos are his enemies?
(a) When he went to school with them and was forbidden from sitting beside them.
(b) When he went to first grade and he was told that he was inferior because he was Mexican.
(c) When he fought with them over a can of beer in a bar in Mexico.
(d) When he met them in the parking lot of a grocery store in Mexico.

3. Why is Josie Morales never called to testify for the trial of Rodney King?
(a) She was told that her testimony contradicted that of another witness, Melanie Singer.
(b) Because she did come forward and expressed willingness to testify.
(c) Because she is a woman.
(d) Because she is not all-American.

4. How does Angela King describe their upbringing when it comes to the issue of racism?
(a) That they grew up thinking the other races were enemies.
(b) That they were forced to make friends only with the other races, and forbidden to mingle with blacks.
(c) That they were raised to only mingle with the blacks, and were forbidden to make friends with any other race.
(d) That they were not raised in a racist way.

5. Where does Salas' father's hatred of gringos stem from?
(a) From being brainstormed by his wife, who had a bad experience with gringos.
(b) From fighting against the gringos when Pershing went after Pancho Villa in Chihuahua.
(c) From his childhood, when he was being bullied by gringos in his hometown.
(d) From the fact that gringos are unreasonable people, as he experienced in his encounter with them in Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. While driving downtown, what incident does Stanley K. Sheinbaum cite as a premonition of bad things to come?

2. How does Michael Zinzun come to be blind in one eye?

3. How does Stephen, Salas' son, handle his encounter with the policeman in which the policeman put a gun to his head?

4. What statement does Allison make about the police and their style when it comes to killings?

5. What statement does Sergeant Charles Duke give about Officer Powell's use of his police baton?

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