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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What happens to Chung Lee and to his family the day the Rodney King verdicts are announced?
(a) Their store was completely looted and later burned.
(b) They were forced to give up their money for the people who were rioting outside their store.
(c) They had to wait in line for food rations.
(d) They were mobbed by the angry supporters of Rodney King.
2. According to Mike Davis, what does the gang truce signify?
(a) That the youth of today value their parents very much.
(b) That the youth of today are intelligent human beings who think about society.
(c) That there is still hope among the youth of today.
(d) That there is a generation that refuses to commit suicide.
3. What statement does Sergeant Charles Duke give about Officer Powell's use of his police baton?
(a) Officer Powell is an expert at the use of police baton.
(b) Officer Powell was not using his polce baton effectively.
(c) Officer Powell shouldn't have been allowed to use the police baton at all.
(d) The police baton Officer Powell was using was substandard and therefore offered no force.
4. How does Michael Zinzun come to be blind in one eye?
(a) He was frying pancakes one time and the sizzling butter zinged his right eye.
(b) During a riot, one of the policemen hit him in the eye with a flashlight.
(c) Michael Zinzun is not at all blind in one eye.
(d) In one of the riots he attended, there was a stray bullet which hit him on the left eye.
5. According to Reginald Denny, why do people become upset whenever he gets his truck off the freeway?
(a) He honks his horn very loudly whenever he makes a turn.
(b) He drives like a madman.
(c) His truck is a very noisy truck.
(d) He takes up a lot of space when turning because his truck is so big.
6. What statement does Judith Tur make about white people and their anger?
(a) They were never angry about races.
(b) They are getting so angry that they are moving back fifty years in their attitudes towards race instead of moving forward.
(c) Their anger is healthy and should be given its proper attention.
(d) She says that their anger is a sign of progress, which will help them cope with race differences.
7. 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 met them in the parking lot of a grocery store in Mexico.
(d) When he fought with them over a can of beer in a bar in Mexico.
8. What does Michael Zinzun do with his time?
(a) He devotes himself to looking for ways to make the city pay the civilian.
(b) He devotes himself to fighting police abuse.
(c) He devotes himself to organizing riots against policemen.
(d) He devotes himself to looking for a cure for blindness.
9. How does Mike Davis describe the gang truce he has witnessed?
(a) An act in survival.
(b) Staged.
(c) Politically motivated.
(d) Miraculous.
10. What is the Anonymous Man's belief in shooting a person in broad daylight?
(a) He doesn't offer any belief or idea whatsoever on the topic.
(b) That most people will run away scared immediately instead of taking time to identify the shooter.
(c) That there is poetic justice in shooting someone in broad daylight.
(d) That under no circumstances should he shoot someone in broad daylight.
11. According to Cornel West, what difference do black men have over black women, which therefore makes them heroes?
(a) Black men are more ideological.
(b) Black men defy authority while black women cannot.
(c) Black men are more obedient to the laws of the land.
(d) Black men know how to handle the politics and the environment.
12. How does Richard Kim describe the looting?
(a) It was like witnessing a kangaroo give birth.
(b) Tthere was nothing like it.
(c) It was like going into a war.
(d) It was like being deaf and blind for a few minutes.
13. What statement does Haywood make about the women he sees in the riots and the fire?
(a) They all looked frail and fragile and it was unfortunate that they were caught up in the riots.
(b) He felt an urgent need to protect the women he saw.
(c) He saw how gentle the female species were.
(d) He has never seen such hostility in females as he saw that day.
14. There was once a demonstration of 850 people, including Spanish and white people. What is the event that precedes the demonstration?
(a) Allison's speech.
(b) The general assembly of the Mothers ROC.
(c) The general assembly of the police in the area.
(d) Tiny's funeral.
15. According to Chris Oh, what happens at the time Walter Park is shot?
(a) He was talking to somebody on the phone when he hit a telephone pole.
(b) He was unable to stop his car and bumped his head on the windshield.
(c) He pressed down on his car's accelerator and ran into a telephone pole.
(d) He stepped on the accelerator and ran down a kid.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Josie Morales' husband want to go inside and stop watching?
2. What do the doctors at the hospital tell Evers?
3. In what language does Chung Lee tell his story?
4. What is Jason Sanford's belief about him going out in the streets after the Rodney King verdict?
5. According to Oh, what significant function does the frontal lobe of the brain perform?
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