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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The War Zone, A Weird Common Thread in Our Lives | The War Zone, A Badge of Courage.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is shot during the looting of Richard Kim's appliance store?
(a) Richard Kim's father.
(b) Richard Kim's sister.
(c) Richard Kim.
(d) Richard Kim's mother.

2. What is Jason Sanford's belief about him going out in the streets after the Rodney King verdict?
(a) That he probably would not have been beaten because of how he looks.
(b) That he might be stoned.
(c) That he might have been beaten terribly.
(d) That he would have been called in for questioning by the police.

3. Who is Chung Lee?
(a) A passerby who witnessed the beating of Rodney King.
(b) The chief of police for the Korean community in the area.
(c) The president of the Korean-American Victims Association.
(d) The dead man who fell in the tall building.

4. What reassurance does the police officer give to the jurors on the bus whom he is escorting to the courthouse?
(a) People don't recognize them anyway and that the commotion was very much a normal one.
(b) There is no need to worry if people threw rocks and bottles because the windows of the bus were bulletproof.
(c) Everything will be forgotten in a week, so jurors should better come up with a verdict then.
(d) The people gathered in front of the courthouse did not care about the jurors, and therefore did not notice them.

5. According to Theresa Allison, what event prompts her to start the Mothers Reclaiming Our Children (Mothers ROC) group?
(a) The finalization of her divorce with her husband.
(b) The addiction of one of her sons to drugs.
(c) The weakening of the dollar in the international market.
(d) The killing of her nephew, Tiny, in 1991.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does his encounter with the police officers in 1942 have on Salas?

2. What happens to Chung Lee and to his family the day the Rodney King verdicts are announced?

3. What effect does being a policeman have inside a courtroom?

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

5. According to Cornel West, what difference do black men have over black women, which therefore makes them heroes?

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