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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Twilight, Ask Saddam Hussein.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What incident does Big Al describe in which he realizes that the conditions in which he lives are so dangerous that everyone must be qualified to carry firearms?
(a) A man at a bubble gum machine pulled a gun on him once.
(b) He saw a six-year old child carrying a real gun.
(c) A man with a gun used it to buy bubble gums.
(d) A man with his baby walked into a gun store and bought a gun while the baby looked on.

2. What do the doctors at the hospital tell Evers?
(a) The baby will have a sustained sickness from the bullet.
(b) The baby will be deaf because of the loud shot it heard.
(c) The baby caught the bullet in her arms, which saved both Evers and the baby.
(d) The baby cannot live longer than seven days.

3. What statement does the anonymous juror from Simi Valley make about his involvement in the Rodney King trial?
(a) This particular case should have been done in a very private, confidential manner.
(b) He would have voted differently if he had known what would happen afterwards.
(c) His vote was very critical in the verdict and the events that followed the trial.
(d) If he had known what would happen afterwards, he would have sent a note to the judge to say that he could not be on the jury because of what it put him and his family through.

4. 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.

5. What does the Reverend Tom Choi find out after some time in his interaction with the people in the community?
(a) He found that there was too much hostility in people.
(b) He saw that there was hatred everywhere.
(c) He found that Koreans, Americans, and blacks were not fighting after all.
(d) He did not see hostility; instead found only friendliness and solidarity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What comparison does Peter Sellars make about the United States and his father?

2. What time does Tom Bradley and his staff plan to go to the media to issue a statement on their reaction to the verdict?

3. What is Owen Smet's current occupation?

4. What reason does Katie Miller give to explain why Korean stores are burned in black neighborhoods?

5. What are "choke holds"?

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