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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Elvira Evers describe the looting that goes on after the Rodney King verdict?
(a) Everyone united in looting, conspiring to get the most out of the stores.
(b) There wasn't any looting that took place after the verdict.
(c) Everyone was taking things and was acting as if they were at a carnival.
(d) Colored people looted only from white-owned stores and vice versa.

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

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

4. What statement does Judith Tur make about white people and their anger?
(a) They are getting so angry that they are moving back fifty years in their attitudes towards race instead of moving forward.
(b) They were never angry about races.
(c) Their anger is healthy and should be given its proper attention.
(d) She says that their anger is a sign of progress, which will help them cope with race differences.

5. In what state is Walter Park in while he is being interviewed?
(a) With Alzheimer's disease.
(b) Connected to a life support system.
(c) Brain-damaged and heavily sedated.
(d) Healthy and vibrant.

6. What effect does his encounter with the police officers in 1942 have on Salas?
(a) A strong admiration for police officers.
(b) He maintained a community newspaper that printed only stories about policemen.
(c) He founded an organization whose sole aim is to keep track of the movements of the policemen in his community.
(d) A strong hatred for white police officers.

7. According to Jason Sanford, who are "they"?
(a) He does not give an explanation as to who "they" are.
(b) "They" are the Mexicans, Chinese and blacks that populate his neighborhood.
(c) He says that "they" represent a combination of many things for him.
(d) "They" are the cops of Los Angeles.

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

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

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

11. 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 drive away for a while until the riot dies down.
(c) He was going to get his gun and shoot anyone he sees.
(d) He was going to buy liquor from the store.

12. What is the vision in the early 1960s, according to Mike Davis?
(a) Black kids should be separated from white kids.
(b) Black kids should be given twice the challenges that white kids endure.
(c) Black kids should be given special treatment.
(d) Black kids can be surfers, too.

13. 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 man with a briefcase hit a girl on her head and left her for dead.
(c) A girl with a briefcase hit a man repeatedly and left him for dead.
(d) A kid with a nine-millimeter gun shot a man to death in front of him.

14. 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 gives them money every Christmas.
(c) He had opened his store for them one time.
(d) He had donated a lot of money to the Compton area.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Chung Lee?

2. What action plan do the upper middle class in the Beverly Hills restaurant talk about in relation to the riots?

3. How much fine does Julio Menjivar have to pay as a result of his arrest?

4. What statement does Sergeant Duke give about the importance of choke holds?

5. What does Walter Park talk about during the interview?

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