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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. How does Rudy Salas, Sr. refer to his feelings of racism?
(a) Insanity.
(b) Fanaticism.
(c) Fantasy.
(d) Epiphany.

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

3. According to Mike Davis, what does the gang truce signify?
(a) That the youth of today are intelligent human beings who think about society.
(b) That there is still hope among the youth of today.
(c) That there is a generation that refuses to commit suicide.
(d) That the youth of today value their parents very much.

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

5. How does Mike Davis describe the gang truce he has witnessed?
(a) Politically motivated.
(b) An act in survival.
(c) Staged.
(d) Miraculous.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the "curious people"?

2. Which particular incident after the trial makes the anonymous juror from Simi Valley most upset?

3. What reassurance does the police officer give to the jurors on the bus whom he is escorting to the courthouse?

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

5. Why does Josie Morales keep watching the beating of Rodney King from her apartment?

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