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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 name of the KKK newspaper?
(a) The Way of the World.
(b) The Flame.
(c) The Bayonet.
(d) The Crusader.

2. Who was unhappy with Sergeant Trapp's support of Ron?
(a) Ken.
(b) David Duke.
(c) Chuck.
(d) Arthur.

3. Ken had plans to expand KKK membership within what types of institutions?
(a) High schools.
(b) Prisons.
(c) Colleges.
(d) Mental hospitals.

4. What was the audio arrangement between Ron and Chuck when they were infiltrating the KKK together?
(a) Chuck was fitted with a wireless body transmitter that let Ron listen to and record Chuck's conversations.
(b) Chuck was wearing a tiny video camera in his lapel and Ron could both see and hear Chuck.
(c) Chuck was fitted with only an audio recorder and Ron could not hear Chuck's conversations.
(d) Chuck and Ron were both fitted with wireless body transmitters that allowed them to hear one another.

5. What is NOT a characteristic mentioned by Ken when he tells Ron about the man he should be looking for at the Kwik Inn?
(a) Tall.
(b) Hippie-looking.
(c) Clean-shaven.
(d) Skinny.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fred Wilkens told Ron that white people needed to perform what action as well as black people had been performing it for years?

2. How did Ron make first contact with Fred Wilkens?

3. Ron states that "from its very beginning the Ku Klux Klan and its members were dedicated to the cause of" (64) what?

4. Early Klansmen wore robes in hopes of convincing freed slaves that they were what type of people?

5. Fred Wilkens said that what kind of event was being planned for the day of David Duke's visit to Colorado Springs?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the literal meaning of the Latin phrase "Posse Comatitus" (78)?

2. What is Ron's plan regarding the longevity of his investigation into the Colorado KKK?

3. What is Ron Stallworth's purpose for including a discussion of Michael W. Miller?

4. Describe the groundbreaking nature of Ron Stallworth's enrollment in the Police Cadet program.

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

6. Discuss the messages inherent in the issue of Ron's ill-fitting police cap.

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

8. How does Ron's receipt of a KKK membership card intersect with the text's theme of identity?

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

10. What are Fred Wilkens's beliefs about black people?

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