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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What statement does Sergeant Charles Duke give about Officer Powell's use of his police baton?
(a) Officer Powell was not using his polce baton effectively.
(b) Officer Powell shouldn't have been allowed to use the police baton at all.
(c) Officer Powell is an expert at the use of police baton.
(d) The police baton Officer Powell was using was substandard and therefore offered no force.

2. What are "choke holds"?
(a) It is a slang for choking a subject to death.
(b) It is a choker worn by a police officer to identify him as an expert in choke methods.
(c) These are the techniques in using a police baton effectively.
(d) These are upper body control holds which the LAPD used in the past.

3. What particular incident makes Viola go into shock?
(a) A man with a briefcase hit a girl on her head and left her for dead.
(b) A kid with a nine-millimeter gun shot a man to death in front of him.
(c) A kid with a nine-millimeter gun pointed in his general direction, who told him that he was going to kill him.
(d) A girl with a briefcase hit a man repeatedly and left him for dead.

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

5. Who are the "curious people"?
(a) They are the bag ladies loitering the streets of Los Angeles.
(b) They are the kids of Los Angeles who have an overwhelming curiosity about everything around them.
(c) They are the old ladies in the neighborhood of Los Angeles, who tend to pry in all the happenings around them.
(d) They are the gangs of Los Angeles whom Stanley K. Sheinbaum had a chance to talk to.

6. What does Denny plan to put up in his own house someday to remember the people who have saved him?
(a) A picture mosaic of the images of the riot.
(b) A room dedicated to the riots.
(c) A painting of Rodney King.
(d) A painting of the scene of the riots.

7. What reassurance does the police officer give to the jurors on the bus whom he is escorting to the courthouse?
(a) The people gathered in front of the courthouse did not care about the jurors, and therefore did not notice them.
(b) Everything will be forgotten in a week, so jurors should better come up with a verdict then.
(c) People don't recognize them anyway and that the commotion was very much a normal one.
(d) There is no need to worry if people threw rocks and bottles because the windows of the bus were bulletproof.

8. 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 with his baby walked into a gun store and bought a gun while the baby looked on.
(b) A man with a gun used it to buy bubble gums.
(c) A man at a bubble gum machine pulled a gun on him once.
(d) He saw a six-year old child carrying a real gun.

9. According to Oh, what significant function does the frontal lobe of the brain perform?
(a) It pumps blood from the heart to the brain.
(b) It is where learning skills and a person's basic characteristics are.
(c) It enables a person to distinguish colors.
(d) It lets a person smell.

10. How much does Michael Zinzun get from the trial in which the city is ordered to pay him?
(a) $12 million.
(b) $3 million.
(c) $1.2 million.
(d) $2.1 million.

11. What statement does Allison make about the police and their style when it comes to killings?
(a) The police don't like killing at all.
(b) The police like to make killings look like drive-by shootings.
(c) She does not say anything about the subject.
(d) The police like to make killings in a very discreet manner.

12. What statement does Big Al make about the Rodney King beating and the media attention it receives?
(a) The media did not fairly potray Rodney King as a model black citizen.
(b) The media should not have been involved and the case will go away quietly.
(c) There was nothing new about black people being beaten, it was just brought into public view this time.
(d) It would have been a normal routine procedure if not for the media exposure it received.

13. Which particular incident after the trial makes the anonymous juror from Simi Valley most upset?
(a) Receiving a letter from one angry follower of the case, asking if he knew that people were dying and burning buildings in South LA because of him.
(b) Receiving a phone call from Angela King asking how he can sleep at night.
(c) Receiving a letter from the Ku Klux Klan pledging support and inviting him to join the organization.
(d) Receiving a death threat from the family members of Rodney King.

14. What is the Anonymous Man's belief in shooting a person in broad daylight?
(a) That most people will run away scared immediately instead of taking time to identify the shooter.
(b) That under no circumstances should he shoot someone in broad daylight.
(c) That there is poetic justice in shooting someone in broad daylight.
(d) He doesn't offer any belief or idea whatsoever on the topic.

15. Who arrives at the scene of the looting, and also eventually harms Julio Menjivar?
(a) The Los Angeles Police.
(b) The Crime Scene Investigation Unit.
(c) The Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(d) The National Guard.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mrs. Park describe her ordeal during Mr. Park's hospitalization?

2. What specific skills is Oh concerned about; one that his father can no longer perform?

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

4. What does Gil Garcetti believe in when it comes to jurors and their participation in trials?

5. What effect does being a policeman have inside a courtroom?

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