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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Here's A Nobody, Carmen | Here's A Nobody, Where the Water Is.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Cornel West, why do gunfighters become heroes?
(a) Because of their experience in fighting.
(b) Because of the number of people they have killed.
(c) Because of their guns, and being a gunfighter is equated to being tough.
(d) Because gunfighters usually have high moral standards.

2. Who are the "curious people"?
(a) They are the old ladies in the neighborhood of Los Angeles, who tend to pry in all the happenings around them.
(b) They are the kids of Los Angeles who have an overwhelming curiosity about everything around them.
(c) They are the bag ladies loitering the streets of Los Angeles.
(d) They are the gangs of Los Angeles whom Stanley K. Sheinbaum had a chance to talk to.

3. Particularly for Salas, when does he realize that gringos are his enemies?
(a) When he went to first grade and he was told that he was inferior because he was Mexican.
(b) When he fought with them over a can of beer in a bar in Mexico.
(c) When he went to school with them and was forbidden from sitting beside them.
(d) When he met them in the parking lot of a grocery store in Mexico.

4. What is the vision in the early 1960s, according to Mike Davis?
(a) Black kids should be given twice the challenges that white kids endure.
(b) Black kids can be surfers, too.
(c) Black kids should be separated from white kids.
(d) Black kids should be given special treatment.

5. How much does Michael Zinzun get from the trial in which the city is ordered to pay him?
(a) $1.2 million.
(b) $12 million.
(c) $3 million.
(d) $2.1 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Stephen, Salas' son, handle his encounter with the policeman in which the policeman put a gun to his head?

2. What is the Anonymous Man's belief in shooting a person in broad daylight?

3. According to Theresa Allison, what event prompts her to start the Mothers Reclaiming Our Children (Mothers ROC) group?

4. What statement does Allison make about the police and their style when it comes to killings?

5. According to Jason Sanford, who are "they"?

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