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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Here's A Nobody, Magic | Here's A Nobody, Hammer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 went to school with them and was forbidden from sitting beside them.
(c) When he met them in the parking lot of a grocery store in Mexico.
(d) When he fought with them over a can of beer in a bar in Mexico.

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

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

4. According to Cornel West, what difference do black men have over black women, which therefore makes them heroes?
(a) Black men know how to handle the politics and the environment.
(b) Black men are more ideological.
(c) Black men are more obedient to the laws of the land.
(d) Black men defy authority while black women cannot.

5. What theory does the scholar Cornel West give on gangsterism?
(a) Gangsterism is overrated in general.
(b) Gangsterism is a lousy excuse for unacceptable behavior.
(c) Gangsterism arises from the frontier myth and the myth of the gunfighter in American history.
(d) Gangsterism is an ideology created by people who have lost all hope.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What statement does Sergeant Duke give about the importance of choke holds?

3. What does Gil Garcetti believe in when it comes to jurors and their participation in trials?

4. Why is Josie Morales never called to testify for the trial of Rodney King?

5. What statement does Sergeant Charles Duke give about Officer Powell's use of his police baton?

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