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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was The Birth of a Nation released?

2. To whom did Ron's interviewers continue to allude throughout his job interview?

3. What essential tool did Chuck always carry in his unmarked undercover police car?

4. What did Ron immediately request from Sergeant Trapp following the KKK meeting at Ken's house?

5. How had Ron's mother taught him to feel about their local police department officers?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. In what ways does Ron later see the benefits of the mistakes he had made in his first conversation with Ken?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the author's use of characterization methods, as applied to real people, serve the goals of the memoir? Discuss how the author’s use of particular characterization methods helps to advance particular messages within the text.

Essay Topic 2

What is Stallworth’s message regarding the broad range of racist beliefs and behaviors that attack the civil rights guaranteed to all citizens and how does he get this message across to the reader?

Essay Topic 3

How does the author employ the use or rejection of fallacy within Ron Stallworth's memoir Black Klansman and how does the inclusion of fallacy help the author to prove particular points made within the text?

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