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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second police officer questioned about?
(a) His reasons for arresting the militants.
(b) His reasons for shooting into the Silver Dollar Bar.
(c) His reasons for carrying a gun to a demonstration.
(d) His reasons for breaking a Chicano man's leg.

2. According to Brown, what has made him enemies?
(a) His television appearances.
(b) His attitude toward the judge.
(c) His book deal.
(d) His run for sheriff.

3. Who testifies that the Chicanos are a class of people?
(a) Major Douglas Tomkins.
(b) Sergeant Lovelace.
(c) Doctor Joan Moore.
(d) Doctor Karen Tomkins.

4. Why does the judge order Brown into custody for the second time?
(a) For throwing things.
(b) For leaving the court.
(c) For forgetting to register a witness.
(d) For his way of speaking.

5. What does Brown insinuate that the authorities knew about Zanzibar?
(a) He had tapes of what happened at Laguna Park.
(b) He helped plan a bombing on a Safeway store.
(c) He had gone undercover to a police meeting.
(d) He was giving the Chicanos money.

6. In which part of Los Angeles does the juror live?
(a) Watts.
(b) Washington Heights.
(c) Porto.
(d) Beverly Hills.

7. What is the name of Brown's friend who tells him not to worry about the police?
(a) Phil.
(b) Judas.
(c) Jesus.
(d) James.

8. What promise does Brown make in Chapter 15 that he doesn't want to make?
(a) To spend the next year in LA.
(b) To write Gilbert's biography.
(c) To do the accounts for the militants.
(d) To defend seven militants.

9. What was the name of the bar where Zanzibar was killed?
(a) The Gold Bar.
(b) The Regal Ashtray.
(c) The Silver Dollar.
(d) Utopia.

10. In which state were the student protesters killed?
(a) Washington.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Ohio.
(d) New York.

11. Brown refers to the Chicanos as ___________.
(a) The Cockroach people.
(b) The Mini-Giants.
(c) The Militants.
(d) The Revolutionaries.

12. Why are spectators cleared from the court during the St. Basil trial?
(a) To prevent the threat of violence.
(b) To help Brown to focus.
(c) So the trial can continue.
(d) So they don't prejudice the jury.

13. Why does Brown say he is running for sheriff?
(a) For Robert's memory.
(b) For his mother's memory.
(c) For political reasons.
(d) For educational reasons.

14. For which of the following crimes are the Tooner Flats Seven on trial?
(a) Assassination.
(b) Kidnapping.
(c) Armed robbery.
(d) Conspiracy.

15. Why is Brown's suitcase never searched when he enters the courthouse?
(a) He has bribed security.
(b) His cousin works for security.
(c) He always goes the back way.
(d) They all know him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What riot are Brown and the others watching at the beginning of Chapter 15?

2. Brown files for a new trial for ___________.

3. How does the crowd react to Brown's speech at the beginning of Chapter 12?

4. For whom does Roland work?

5. Whose arrest does the judge order in this section?

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