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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What statement does Sergeant Charles Duke give about Officer Powell's use of his police baton?
(a) Officer Powell shouldn't have been allowed to use the police baton at all.
(b) Officer Powell was not using his polce baton effectively.
(c) Officer Powell is an expert at the use of police baton.
(d) The police baton Officer Powell was using was substandard and therefore offered no force.

2. What statement does Haywood make about the women he sees in the riots and the fire?
(a) He felt an urgent need to protect the women he saw.
(b) He has never seen such hostility in females as he saw that day.
(c) They all looked frail and fragile and it was unfortunate that they were caught up in the riots.
(d) He saw how gentle the female species were.

3. In what state is Walter Park in while he is being interviewed?
(a) Brain-damaged and heavily sedated.
(b) Healthy and vibrant.
(c) With Alzheimer's disease.
(d) Connected to a life support system.

4. To what movie does the anonymous Hollywood agent compare the scene he sees in the garage with many people running?
(a) Godzilla.
(b) The Day After Tomorrow.
(c) Terminator 2.
(d) Independence Day.

5. Why does Josie Morales' husband want to go inside and stop watching?
(a) He was afraid that Rodney King might call to them for help.
(b) He was afraid that they might be seen and be involved.
(c) He was afraid that they will be asked to testify in the trial.
(d) He was afraid to watch because he grew up in Mexico where police abuse is prevalent.

6. According to the Anonymous Man, what has changed between older and younger gang members?
(a) Younger members have become much more aggressive than the older gang members.
(b) Older gang members respected their elders, but such respect has disappeared among younger members.
(c) Younger gang members have become louder, and tend to attract more attention than older gang members.
(d) Older gang members are great conversationalists, while this skill is lost on younger gang members.

7. According to Cornel West, what difference do black men have over black women, which therefore makes them heroes?
(a) Black men know how to handle the politics and the environment.
(b) Black men are more obedient to the laws of the land.
(c) Black men defy authority while black women cannot.
(d) Black men are more ideological.

8. According to Jason Sanford, who are "they"?
(a) "They" are the cops of Los Angeles.
(b) He does not give an explanation as to who "they" are.
(c) "They" are the Mexicans, Chinese and blacks that populate his neighborhood.
(d) He says that "they" represent a combination of many things for him.

9. What statement does Allison make about the police and their style when it comes to killings?
(a) The police don't like killing at all.
(b) She does not say anything about the subject.
(c) The police like to make killings look like drive-by shootings.
(d) The police like to make killings in a very discreet manner.

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

11. What is Proposition F?
(a) An effort to limit the police chief's term to five years.
(b) A resolution preventing African-Americans from driving luxury cars.
(c) A legislation which aims to appoint African-Americans as chief of police.
(d) A policy prohibiting riots to take place on weekdays.

12. What does Gil Garcetti believe in when it comes to jurors and their participation in trials?
(a) Most jurors do not take their duties seriously and that their participation in trials be limited to those of observers.
(b) The judiciary system has to be changed to give less power to jurors and more to judges and district attorneys.
(c) Most jurors take their oath seriously and because the burden of proof in a criminal trial is very high, jurors must carefully examine and consider all evidence in a case.
(d) Ordinary civilians should not be tasked with matters of the law.

13. Who shoots Walter Park, according to the African-American woman in the car behind him?
(a) A Mexican.
(b) An African-American.
(c) An Asian.
(d) A Korean.

14. What time does Tom Bradley and his staff plan to go to the media to issue a statement on their reaction to the verdict?
(a) Four o'clock in the afternoon.
(b) Eight o'clock the following morning.
(c) Six o'clock in the afternoon.
(d) Five o'clock in the afternoon.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. There was once a demonstration of 850 people, including Spanish and white people. What is the event that precedes the demonstration?

3. How does Angela King describe their upbringing when it comes to the issue of racism?

4. What action plan do the upper middle class in the Beverly Hills restaurant talk about in relation to the riots?

5. Who arrives at the scene of the looting, and also eventually harms Julio Menjivar?

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