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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. Where do Brown and the others celebrate their partial victory?

2. Who sings at the Chicano rally?

3. Why does Brown say Gilbert has no right to complain to him?

4. Why are spectators cleared from the court during the St. Basil trial?

5. What was the name of the bar where Zanzibar was killed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Brown start to find connections among Hollywood's elite?

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

3. What does Brown do at the nightclub in Mexico?

4. What problems occur on the first day of the St. Basil Thirteen hearing?

5. What is the eventual outcome of the trial in Chapter 12?

6. What does Fernando Sumaya tell the court in his testimony?

7. Why does Brown think that Gilbert has no right to question him about Mexico?

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

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

10. How was Zanzibar killed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did Brown want to become a criminal lawyer? What are Brown's strengths and weaknesses as a lawyer?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

In what way could the Chicano Movement be described as a terrorist group? In what way have the police and society forced them to become such a group? What comment does this make about terrorist groups in general?

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