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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Michael Zinzun do with his time?
(a) He devotes himself to looking for ways to make the city pay the civilian.
(b) He devotes himself to looking for a cure for blindness.
(c) He devotes himself to organizing riots against policemen.
(d) He devotes himself to fighting police abuse.

3. According to Cornel West, what difference do black men have over black women, which therefore makes them heroes?
(a) Black men defy authority while black women cannot.
(b) Black men are more obedient to the laws of the land.
(c) Black men know how to handle the politics and the environment.
(d) Black men are more ideological.

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

5. Who took a video of the beating from their helicopter over the intersection of Florence and Normandie?
(a) Judith Tur and her cameraman.
(b) John and Murika Tur.
(c) John and Judith Tur.
(d) Murika and Judith Tur.

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

7. What specific skills is Oh concerned about; one that his father can no longer perform?
(a) Writing.
(b) Driving.
(c) Reading.
(d) Golfing.

8. 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) Stephen did not tell his father right away.
(d) He made a complaint about the policeman in the nearest police station.

9. How much fine does Julio Menjivar have to pay as a result of his arrest?
(a) $150.
(b) $350.
(c) $250.
(d) $500.

10. To what movie does the anonymous Hollywood agent compare the scene he sees in the garage with many people running?
(a) Independence Day.
(b) Godzilla.
(c) Terminator 2.
(d) The Day After Tomorrow.

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

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

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

14. What statement does Haywood make about the women he sees in the riots and the fire?
(a) They all looked frail and fragile and it was unfortunate that they were caught up in the riots.
(b) He saw how gentle the female species were.
(c) He felt an urgent need to protect the women he saw.
(d) He has never seen such hostility in females as he saw that day.

15. Why does Evers go to the hospital immediately after she walks home from work?
(a) She just wanted to see how many have been wounded from the riots.
(b) She was shot and she was worried about the baby in her womb.
(c) She wanted to visit a friend who had been shot.
(d) She forgot that it was time for her prenatal checkup.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is shot during the looting of Richard Kim's appliance store?

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

3. According to Oh, what significant function does the frontal lobe of the brain perform?

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

5. What assurance does Walter Park hold on to, despite the fact that his wife is not expressive?

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