Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what language does Chung Lee tell his story?
(a) Korean.
(b) Japanese.
(c) Mandarin Chinese.
(d) English.

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

3. At the time when the Hollywood agent is dining in one of the Beverly Hills restaurants, what building is burned, which leads to even more fear among the people?
(a) The Kodak Theater.
(b) The Beverly Hills Hotel.
(c) The Beverly Stadium.
(d) The Beverly Center.

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

5. According to Chris Oh, what happens at the time Walter Park is shot?
(a) He was talking to somebody on the phone when he hit a telephone pole.
(b) He was unable to stop his car and bumped his head on the windshield.
(c) He stepped on the accelerator and ran down a kid.
(d) He pressed down on his car's accelerator and ran into a telephone pole.

6. What theory does the scholar Cornel West give on gangsterism?
(a) Gangsterism is an ideology created by people who have lost all hope.
(b) Gangsterism is overrated in general.
(c) Gangsterism arises from the frontier myth and the myth of the gunfighter in American history.
(d) Gangsterism is a lousy excuse for unacceptable behavior.

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) There is no need to worry if people threw rocks and bottles because the windows of the bus were bulletproof.
(d) People don't recognize them anyway and that the commotion was very much a normal one.

8. How does Stephen, Salas' son, handle his encounter with the policeman in which the policeman put a gun to his head?
(a) He wrote to all the major dailies to tell them of the abuse.
(b) Stephen did not tell his father right away.
(c) He told his father about it as soon as he came home.
(d) He made a complaint about the policeman in the nearest police station.

9. 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) They had to wait in line for food rations.
(c) Their store was completely looted and later burned.
(d) They were forced to give up their money for the people who were rioting outside their store.

10. According to Reginald Denny, why do people become upset whenever he gets his truck off the freeway?
(a) His truck is a very noisy truck.
(b) He honks his horn very loudly whenever he makes a turn.
(c) He takes up a lot of space when turning because his truck is so big.
(d) He drives like a madman.

11. According to Katie Miller, who does the looting in the Korean stores?
(a) White Americans.
(b) Mexicans.
(c) Blacks.
(d) Asians.

12. How does Michael Zinzun come to be blind in one eye?
(a) Michael Zinzun is not at all blind in one eye.
(b) During a riot, one of the policemen hit him in the eye with a flashlight.
(c) In one of the riots he attended, there was a stray bullet which hit him on the left eye.
(d) He was frying pancakes one time and the sizzling butter zinged his right eye.

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

14. What does Gil Garcetti believe in when it comes to jurors and their participation in trials?
(a) Most jurors take their oath seriously and because the burden of proof in a criminal trial is very high, jurors must carefully examine and consider all evidence in a case.
(b) The judiciary system has to be changed to give less power to jurors and more to judges and district attorneys.
(c) Most jurors do not take their duties seriously and that their participation in trials be limited to those of observers.
(d) Ordinary civilians should not be tasked with matters of the law.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Josie Morales' husband want to go inside and stop watching?

2. What do the doctors at the hospital tell Evers?

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

4. While driving downtown, what incident does Stanley K. Sheinbaum cite as a premonition of bad things to come?

5. How does Joe Viola describe the way he felt when he was caught in the riots?

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