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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What statement does Bill Bradley make about the Rodney King beating?
(a) It was a violation of human rights and should be totally penalized.
(b) It was so unusual that a law has to be passed addressing it.
(c) It was nothing new.
(d) It has nothing to do with him.

2. What complaint does Reverend Tom Choi hear about Koreans, Americans, and blacks?
(a) Korean-Americans did not allow blacks into their territories.
(b) Blacks did not patronize Korean-American businesses.
(c) Blacks did not allow Korean-Americans into their territories.
(d) Korean-Americans did not patronize black businesses.

3. What statement does Paul Parker make about the LAPD's efforts to find and arrest the people responsible for Reginald Denny's beating?
(a) It shouldn't have been done in the first place.
(b) The efforts were mostly a public relations program prompted by certain criticisms.
(c) It was inefficient since not enough violence was employed.
(d) It would have been done better if the FBI was involved.

4. What question does Braun pose in relation to the Rodney King trial?
(a) Who are Powell and Koon?
(b) Where are Laurie and Tina?
(c) Is it the quest for truth or is the society protecting itself?
(d) Why did they beat Reginald Denny?

5. What issues does Maxine Waters confront the President about?
(a) Addiction and crime.
(b) Lack of housing programs.
(c) Insufficient educational budget.
(d) Unemployment, hopelessness, and despair.

6. According to Elaine Young, how long do people stay at the Beverly Hills Hotel?
(a) Until midnight.
(b) Until three or four in the morning.
(c) They did not stay at the hotel at all.
(d) Until six in the evening.

7. Which statement best describes Twilight Bey's beliefs?
(a) Bad things happen at night.
(b) There is no afterlife.
(c) Bad things happen in daytime.
(d) Everything that occurs in the daytime creates what happens at night.

8. What particular word does Paula Weinstein use in her press release that is objected to by the entertainment industry people?
(a) Uprising.
(b) Upset.
(c) Upheaval.
(d) Uptown.

9. Which organization does Gladis Sibrian work for?
(a) Lutheran National Liberation Front, Africa.
(b) Panamanian National Liberation Front, Panama.
(c) Jackson National Liberation Front, Hawaii.
(d) Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, USA.

10. What does twilight force us to be aware of?
(a) That we are all but human.
(b) How we project ourselves into a situation and how we are part of an event.
(c) That there is an agreement between cosmic and actual events.
(d) That there are limited resources at any given time.

11. How does Maxine Waters force her ideas onto lawmakers?
(a) By writing numerous press releases.
(b) By going into interviews on all radio stations.
(c) By pushing into meetings where she was not invited.
(d) By talking to them one by one in private.

12. What is the wrong perception about Daryl Gates' whereabouts when the disturbances begin?
(a) He was reading a story to preschoolers when in fact he was at home.
(b) He was in a meeting with other policemen when in fact he was at home.
(c) He was in church when in fact he was at home.
(d) He was at a fundraiser when in fact he was in a meeting about Proposition F.

13. What does Gladis Sibrian's nom de guerre mean?
(a) Shadow.
(b) Light.
(c) Wind.
(d) Life.

14. What statement does Gates give on the reason why he is delayed in getting to where the trouble is?
(a) He ran out of gas.
(b) He had a hard time leaving the meeting and getting away.
(c) Traffic was terrible, and he couldn't find an alternate route.
(d) He couldn't find a cab to take him to where the riots were.

15. Whose story does Elaine Brown always tell young men who are drawn to the group by its guns?
(a) Jonathan Marie.
(b) Jonathan Laurie.
(c) Jonathan Jackson.
(d) Jonathan Clarke.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people tell Gladis Sibrian while she is growing up?

2. What statement do the police give as a reason for Lance's arrest?

3. Where is the Reverend Tom Choi a minister at?

4. What particular case is Bill Bradley upset about?

5. How does she describe picking up a gun and going into the streets without a plan or any reason other than rage?

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