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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. 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.

2. How does Stephen, Salas' son, handle his encounter with the policeman in which the policeman put a gun to his head?
(a) Stephen did not tell his father right away.
(b) He wrote to all the major dailies to tell them of the abuse.
(c) He made a complaint about the policeman in the nearest police station.
(d) He told his father about it as soon as he came home.

3. There was once a demonstration of 850 people, including Spanish and white people. What is the event that precedes the demonstration?
(a) The general assembly of the Mothers ROC.
(b) Tiny's funeral.
(c) Allison's speech.
(d) The general assembly of the police in the area.

4. What name does Angela King call her nephew, Rodney?
(a) Glen.
(b) Carl.
(c) Ben.
(d) Victor.

5. How does Michael Zinzun come to be blind in one eye?
(a) He was frying pancakes one time and the sizzling butter zinged his right eye.
(b) In one of the riots he attended, there was a stray bullet which hit him on the left eye.
(c) Michael Zinzun is not at all blind in one eye.
(d) During a riot, one of the policemen hit him in the eye with a flashlight.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Rudy Salas, Sr. refer to his feelings of racism?

3. According to Cornel West, why do gunfighters become heroes?

4. What image does Anonymous Man project when he moves to the valley?

5. How does Angela King react whenever she talks about the beating of her nephew and of his condition?

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