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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is "the simple squeeze"?
(a) Squeezing ones neck to kill.
(b) A method to calm oneself by squeezing one's legs.
(c) A method of wedging ones body through a crowd.
(d) Method to get orange juice from an orange.

2. What does Buford realize is the reason for those approaching where he is standing at the beginning of the book?
(a) Someone was just mugged.
(b) Someone was just killed.
(c) Several hundred football supporters just arrived from Liverpool.
(d) Teenagers were behaving rudley.

3. Who does Buford notice approaching him while he is standing at the beginning of the book?
(a) Thugs.
(b) An old lady.
(c) Football players.
(d) Several police officers.

4. What does being a jib require?
(a) Agression.
(b) Being broke.
(c) Being politely rude.
(d) Finding a way around paying for tickets and travel needs through confrontation of large numbers.

5. What does Buford address in his book "Among the Thugs"?
(a) Thugs in Europe.
(b) Thugs in music, sports, and media.
(c) The violent behavior of European football firms.
(d) Thugs in America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Buford find interesting about the banned teams fans?

2. What is Brunswick?

3. In Chapter 2, what team is banned from attending its own matches?

4. How do Buford and the Italians feel as they watch the English outside the square in "Turin"?

5. What does Mark point out to Buford in "Sunderland and Manchester" relating to mob violence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Buford that makes him unsuccessful within the mob in "A Station Outside Cardiff"?

2. How does the crowd react to the knowledge that Buford is a reporter in "Turin"?

3. Who arrives at the Stamford Bridge in "A Station outside Cardiff" and what do they do?

4. What does Buford learn about the people high in command in the ICJ when he travels to Turin?

5. Why are Buford's friends surprised at Buford's reaction to the crowd's behavior at the train station?

6. Why do the members of the ICJ feel they are most effective when they are in a foreign country at the end of "Sunderland and Manchester"?

7. Why does Buford go to the bathroom to write down the stories he hears from the members of the firm in "Sunderland and Manchester"?

8. What does Steve believe in "Sunderland and Manchester"?

9. What do the English fans do while they are on the bus traveling to the match in "Turin"?

10. Explain why history is so important among members of the firm in "Sunderland and Manchester"?

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