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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mrs. Park describe her ordeal during Mr. Park's hospitalization?
(a) She asked her relatives to be with her to help her take care of Mr. Park.
(b) She spends all her time with him, taking care of him.
(c) She cannot bear to look at him.
(d) She spends all her time at church, praying for his recovery.

2. 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 wrote to all the major dailies to tell them of the abuse.
(c) He made a complaint about the policeman in the nearest police station.
(d) Stephen did not tell his father right away.

3. According to Big Al, what could Denny have been trying to do by driving his truck down a residential street?
(a) Making friends with his neighbors.
(b) He was looking for someone to beat.
(c) Intimidating the neighborhood.
(d) Showing off his truck.

4. On the day of the verdict, how many versions does Tom Bradley prepare for his statement to the press?
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Seven.

5. Why does Josie Morales keep watching the beating of Rodney King from her apartment?
(a) She believes that what the police were doing was a wrong thing and she wanted to be able to testify at the trial.
(b) She was enjoying the beating of Rodney King.
(c) She was waiting for an opportunity to discuss with her neighbors.
(d) She was waiting for an opportunity to help Rodney King.

6. What assurance does Walter Park hold on to, despite the fact that his wife is not expressive?
(a) She will never leave him for another man.
(b) They have a life insurance policy.
(c) She loves him even though she does not express it well.
(d) Their home cannot be touched by the rioters.

7. According to Mrs. Park, how do the police come to know Mr. Park in the Compton area?
(a) He had donated a lot of money to the Compton area.
(b) He provides their booze for free.
(c) He had opened his store for them one time.
(d) He gives them money every Christmas.

8. What time does Tom Bradley and his staff plan to go to the media to issue a statement on their reaction to the verdict?
(a) Six o'clock in the afternoon.
(b) Four o'clock in the afternoon.
(c) Five o'clock in the afternoon.
(d) Eight o'clock the following morning.

9. What statement does the anonymous juror from Simi Valley make about his involvement in the Rodney King trial?
(a) He would have voted differently if he had known what would happen afterwards.
(b) His vote was very critical in the verdict and the events that followed the trial.
(c) This particular case should have been done in a very private, confidential manner.
(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.

10. What statement does Sergeant Duke give about the importance of choke holds?
(a) It should never have been invented in the first place.
(b) These need to be regularly updated, perhaps via a biannual workshop among the workforce.
(c) It was just proper that it was banned from being used.
(d) Since chokeholds became forbidden, there will be an increase in lawsuits because police officers will instead be using their batons.

11. What comment does Julio Menjivar hear from the police officers who are passing by the looting scene?
(a) A threat about starting a fire in the neighborhood.
(b) They said that it was fine that they were destroying their own neighborhood.
(c) An expression of fear.
(d) A joke about how pleasant it would be if a fire was started.

12. What is Proposition F?
(a) A legislation which aims to appoint African-Americans as chief of police.
(b) An effort to limit the police chief's term to five years.
(c) A resolution preventing African-Americans from driving luxury cars.
(d) A policy prohibiting riots to take place on weekdays.

13. What does Joe Viola tell his wife when he recovers from all of the shock?
(a) He was going to get their kids.
(b) He was going to get his gun and shoot anyone he sees.
(c) He was going to buy liquor from the store.
(d) He was going to drive away for a while until the riot dies down.

14. What happens to Chung Lee and to his family the day the Rodney King verdicts are announced?
(a) They were mobbed by the angry supporters of Rodney King.
(b) Their store was completely looted and later burned.
(c) They were forced to give up their money for the people who were rioting outside their store.
(d) They had to wait in line for food rations.

15. What statement does Tom Bradley eventually make when the verdict is announced?
(a) He said that the judicial system once again worked.
(b) He suddenly changed his mind and chose not to give any statement.
(c) Support for the verdict and the jurors.
(d) Outrage at the verdict, but he discouraged violence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Denny plan to put up in his own house someday to remember the people who have saved him?

2. What does the video show at the beginning of the riots?

3. Particularly for Salas, when does he realize that gringos are his enemies?

4. According to Richard Kim, what does his father tell him about the day of the verdict when they went looking for police?

5. According to Cornel West, what difference do black men have over black women, which therefore makes them heroes?

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