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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The War Zone, A Weird Common Thread in Our Lives | The War Zone, A Badge of Courage.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gil Garcetti believe in when it comes to jurors and their participation in trials?
(a) Ordinary civilians should not be tasked with matters of the law.
(b) Most jurors do not take their duties seriously and that their participation in trials be limited to those of observers.
(c) Most jurors take their oath seriously and because the burden of proof in a criminal trial is very high, jurors must carefully examine and consider all evidence in a case.
(d) The judiciary system has to be changed to give less power to jurors and more to judges and district attorneys.

2. What effect does being a policeman have inside a courtroom?
(a) He makes people stay away from courtrooms.
(b) He seems to be surrounded by a kind of magic brought about by the respect people have for members of the police force.
(c) He silences the crowd inside the courtroom because of the raw power he exudes.
(d) He always brings about riot in the courtroom because of the passionate feelings the public has towards policemen in general.

3. 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 bag ladies loitering the streets of Los Angeles.
(c) They are the gangs of Los Angeles whom Stanley K. Sheinbaum had a chance to talk to.
(d) They are the kids of Los Angeles who have an overwhelming curiosity about everything around them.

4. Who is shot during the looting of Richard Kim's appliance store?
(a) Richard Kim's mother.
(b) Richard Kim's father.
(c) Richard Kim's sister.
(d) Richard Kim.

5. Where does Salas' father's hatred of gringos stem from?
(a) From fighting against the gringos when Pershing went after Pancho Villa in Chihuahua.
(b) From being brainstormed by his wife, who had a bad experience with gringos.
(c) From the fact that gringos are unreasonable people, as he experienced in his encounter with them in Mexico.
(d) From his childhood, when he was being bullied by gringos in his hometown.

Short Answer Questions

1. What comment does Jason Sanford usually get from the police about his looks?

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

3. While confined in the hospital on morphine, Reginald Denny remembers some characters coming to see him. Who are they?

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

5. How does Michael Zinzun come to be blind in one eye?

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