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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. According to Cornel West, what difference do black men have over black women, which therefore makes them heroes?
(a) Black men are more obedient to the laws of the land.
(b) Black men know how to handle the politics and the environment.
(c) Black men are more ideological.
(d) Black men defy authority while black women cannot.
2. What effect does his encounter with the police officers in 1942 have on Salas?
(a) A strong admiration for police officers.
(b) A strong hatred for white police officers.
(c) He founded an organization whose sole aim is to keep track of the movements of the policemen in his community.
(d) He maintained a community newspaper that printed only stories about policemen.
3. How does Stephen, Salas' son, handle his encounter with the policeman in which the policeman put a gun to his head?
(a) He told his father about it as soon as he came home.
(b) He made a complaint about the policeman in the nearest police station.
(c) He wrote to all the major dailies to tell them of the abuse.
(d) Stephen did not tell his father right away.
4. What statement does Sergeant Duke give about the importance of choke holds?
(a) Since chokeholds became forbidden, there will be an increase in lawsuits because police officers will instead be using their batons.
(b) These need to be regularly updated, perhaps via a biannual workshop among the workforce.
(c) It should never have been invented in the first place.
(d) It was just proper that it was banned from being used.
5. What is Proposition F?
(a) An effort to limit the police chief's term to five years.
(b) A resolution preventing African-Americans from driving luxury cars.
(c) A policy prohibiting riots to take place on weekdays.
(d) A legislation which aims to appoint African-Americans as chief of police.
Short Answer Questions
1. What statement does Garcetti make about the credibility of police officers?
2. What statement does Sergeant Charles Duke give about Officer Powell's use of his police baton?
3. Why does Josie Morales' husband want to go inside and stop watching?
4. What comment does Jason Sanford usually get from the police about his looks?
5. According to Theresa Allison, what event prompts her to start the Mothers Reclaiming Our Children (Mothers ROC) group?
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