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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the outcome of the trial on page 112?
(a) The man was convicted of firing a gun into the car, but not of murder.
(b) The man was convicted of manslaughter.
(c) The man was acquitted of all charges.
(d) The man was convicted of murder.

2. What does the author imagine white parents might tell their children?
(a) Be twice as fearful.
(b) Be twice as nice.
(c) Take twice as much.
(d) Be twice as successful.

3. Whose last worlds were "This stops today!"
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) Trayvon Martin.
(c) Eric Garner.
(d) Prince Jones.

4. The author believes that when the body is shattered, what happens?
(a) Everything is shattered.
(b) The spirit lives on.
(c) The soul finds rest.
(d) God takes over.

5. When the author sees a police officer, he automatically thinks:
(a) Someone is trying to protect him.
(b) He is not at fault.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Something is wrong.

6. Why did the author feel it was unnecessary to forgive the man who killed Prince Jones?
(a) He was dead.
(b) He was merely expressing America's beliefs about black men.
(c) The man needed to forgive himself.
(d) Forgiveness does not bring back the dead.

7. According to Solzhenitsyn, "To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is _____ " what?
(a) Required.
(b) Necessary.
(c) Compulsory.
(d) Good.

8. The dead boy's mother channeled her anger into _____.
(a) Numbness.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Fury.
(d) Activism.

9. According to the author, this son has been cast into "a race in which the wind is always at your face and _____" what?
(a) Ffire is at your feet.
(b) A knife is always at your back.
(c) You will always be running headfirst into it.
(d) The hounds are always at your heels.

10. What did the dead boy's mother decide to do after the trial in the chapter "The Dream"?
(a) Shoot the man who murdered her son.
(b) Leave the country.
(c) Attack the judge in court.
(d) Plead her son's case before the journalists and writers.

11. What comparison does the author make between the police officer who shot Prince Jones and the ones who died on September 11?
(a) He cannot judge them as police, but as men.
(b) One is a villain and the others heroes.
(c) They are all the same in his eyes.
(d) They wear the same cloth.

12. According to the author, whom or what do the police reflect?
(a) A broken system.
(b) A small minority.
(c) American values.
(d) A frightened few.

13. According to the author, what part of his body has suffered the most?
(a) His feet.
(b) His eyes.
(c) His head.
(d) His heart.

14. Which Howard University student was shot by a PG County officer shortly after the author's encounter with the police?
(a) Trayvon Martin.
(b) Prince Jones.
(c) The girl with the long dreadlocks.
(d) The author's wife.

15. How old was the author's son when Coats first took him along on an interview?
(a) 13.
(b) Six.
(c) 20.
(d) 18.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the author apologize to his son?

2. Whose image does the author see while at a museum?

3. What did the author have to learn from his son's mother?

4. Why was the author's son pushed off the escalator?

5. What does the author recall always having, even when times were hard?

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