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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 essential tool did Chuck always carry in his unmarked undercover police car?
(a) A flashlight.
(b) A gun.
(c) Extra bullets.
(d) A handheld police radio.

2. To whom did Ron's interviewers continue to allude throughout his job interview?
(a) Huey Newton.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Jackie Robinson.
(d) Harriet Beecher Stowe.

3. How did Ron make first contact with Fred Wilkens?
(a) A telegram.
(b) A letter.
(c) A phone call.
(d) In person.

4. What was the last name of Ken, the man who returned Ron's call?
(a) O'dell.
(b) O'Malley.
(c) O'Flanagan.
(d) O'Brien.

5. When Ron told the lieutenant that his hat was too small, what two choices did the lieutenant give Ron?
(a) He told Ron to join the basketball team or wear the cap.
(b) He told Ron to quit or get fired.
(c) He told Ron to wear the cap or get a haircut.
(d) He asked Ron to report the sergeant for his mistake or wear the cap.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item does Ron describe as "standard in undercover work" (38)?

2. Fred Wilkens defined himself in the media as someone who loved what?

3. What is NOT a characteristic mentioned by Ken when he tells Ron about the man he should be looking for at the Kwik Inn?

4. Fred Wilkens told Ron that David Duke had received death threats from what organization?

5. What is the name of the KKK newspaper?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Ron turn his experiences at the receiving end of racist comments into a positive within his job as a police officer?

2. How does Ron describe the way in which his decision to become a police officer had been viewed within the black community?

3. How is Chuck's reaction to Ron's idea used as a means to demonstrate how seemingly crazy plans can also be effective ones?

4. What details does Ron reveal to the reader about his previous dealings with members of Posse Comitatus?

5. Which of Stokely Carmichael's comments at the rally is the most incendiary, from a law enforcement standpoint?

6. Describe one time when Ron's investigation has a positive impact on a community outside of Colorado Springs.

7. Immediately following the KKK meeting at Ken's house, Ron put in a request for what?

8. What is Ken's statement regarding the use of violence by the KKK?

9. What tools did Ron use to reconstruct the narrative about his time as a black man infiltrating the KKK?

10. What is the meaning of the phrase "paper terrorism" (79)?

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