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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. How had Ron's mother taught him to feel about their local police department officers?
(a) She had taught him to respect the officers.
(b) She had taught him to hate the officers.
(c) She had taught him to do the opposite of what the officers told him.
(d) She had taught him to do exactly as the officers told him.

2. Ron states that "from its very beginning the Ku Klux Klan and its members were dedicated to the cause of" (64) what?
(a) International terrorism.
(b) Domestic terrorism.
(c) Paper terrorism.
(d) Legal terrorism.

3. Ron observed that when a white person used the n-word, it was a way of claiming what kind of power?
(a) Concrete.
(b) Small.
(c) False.
(d) Personal.

4. At the time when Ron answered the KKK ad, for how many years had he been working as an undercover investigator?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 4 years.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 2 months.

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) Hippie-looking.
(b) Tall.
(c) Clean-shaven.
(d) Skinny.

Short Answer Questions

1. While undercover, Ron told Ken that he hated anyone that did not have what type of blood in their veins?

2. Why did Ron receive a policeman's cap that was too small?

3. The Ku Klux Klan ad that Ron saw in the newspaper listed what town in Colorado?

4. What was NOT a result predicted by Fred Wilkens when he warns what will happen if black people "continue to participate in the white culture" (58)?

5. What is the first question that Ken asked Ron the first time the two men spoke?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is the theme of hypocrisy highlighted within Ron's discussion of the Posse Comitatus organization?

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

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

5. Name the three ways in which Ron breaks undercover work protocol in his very first contact with the KKK.

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

7. What is the ZOG and what are the beliefs about it held by members of Posse Comitatus?

8. How does Ron send a message to the reader about the media's role in voicing the KKK's messages?

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

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

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