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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. Why does the judge order Brown into custody for the second time?

2. In which state were the student protesters killed?

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

4. Why does Brown say he is running for sheriff?

5. Whom did the police alert about the possibility of trouble at the the church?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Brown and the others decide to avenge Robert's death?

2. What victory has Brown won at the end of Chapter 16?

3. How do the Charles Manson supporters think their case is the same as the Brown's case?

4. What does Fernando Sumaya tell the court in his testimony?

5. Why is the courtroom watching a color film at the beginning of Chapter 15?

6. What does Brown tell Zanzibar in his interview?

7. How does Brown start to find connections among Hollywood's elite?

8. How does Brown describe Charlies's girls?

9. What information does the juror give Brown in Chapter 12?

10. What tragedy does Brown find out has happened in Los Angeles while he has been in Mexico?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Look at the generation gap between the younger and the older characters. What different experiences do both generations go through? What problems is the generation gap causing the characters? Is the generational gap expressed in the book particularly wide during this time, or is a wide generational gap common to all ages?

Essay Topic 2

Why do the students think Brown chooses the cockroach to describe his own people? Why do groups, in general, use such derogatory terms in reference to themselves?

Essay Topic 3

How did the politics of the sixties change America? How does Acosta express these changes in his book?

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