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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Otis Chandler's occupation?
(a) Director of the Times Book Company.
(b) Manager of the Times Mirror Company.
(c) Manager of the Times Book Company.
(d) Director of the Times Mirror Company.

2. How does Hami Bhabha describe the "twilight"?
(a) A moment of total zen.
(b) A moment of total chaos.
(c) A moment of serenity.
(d) An in-between moment of ambivalence.

3. Which African-American character does Mrs. Young-soon Han hate?
(a) Martin Luther King.
(b) Arsenio Hall.
(c) Eddie Murphy.
(d) Jesse Jackson.

4. Do Koreans receive welfare or food stamps?
(a) No.
(b) When it's raining hard.
(c) Yes.
(d) Not all the time.

5. What question does Braun pose in relation to the Rodney King trial?
(a) Where are Laurie and Tina?
(b) Is it the quest for truth or is the society protecting itself?
(c) Who are Powell and Koon?
(d) Why did they beat Reginald Denny?

6. How many young people start gathering in Paula Weinstein and her husband's house?
(a) 15.
(b) 16.
(c) 17.
(d) 14.

7. How long will it take to figure out what happens to the Black Panther Party, according to Elaine Brown?
(a) Two years.
(b) Twenty years.
(c) Thirty years.
(d) Forty years.

8. How much does the membership at the Beverly Hills Gun Club increase after the riots?
(a) Forty percent.
(b) Twenty percent.
(c) Fifty percent.
(d) Thirty percent.

9. What issues does Maxine Waters confront the President about?
(a) Unemployment, hopelessness, and despair.
(b) Insufficient educational budget.
(c) Lack of housing programs.
(d) Addiction and crime.

10. What statement does Paul Parker make about the LAPD's efforts to find and arrest the people responsible for Reginald Denny's beating?
(a) It shouldn't have been done in the first place.
(b) It was inefficient since not enough violence was employed.
(c) The efforts were mostly a public relations program prompted by certain criticisms.
(d) It would have been done better if the FBI was involved.

11. Whose story does Elaine Brown always tell young men who are drawn to the group by its guns?
(a) Jonathan Jackson.
(b) Jonathan Laurie.
(c) Jonathan Marie.
(d) Jonathan Clarke.

12. According to Peter Sellars, what is the one thing that his father cares about?
(a) Peace.
(b) Success.
(c) War.
(d) Family.

13. How does Otis Chandler feel towards improving things around him?
(a) Things are hopeless now no matter how much money there is.
(b) He does not make any statement about the issue.
(c) Things are not hopeless nor can everything be improved by throwing money around.
(d) Things can only be improved by throwing money around.

14. Who is with Betye Saar on the day the verdict is handed out?
(a) Her student Darby.
(b) Her sister Roo.
(c) Her brother Buster.
(d) Her friend Tony.

15. What statement does Bill Bradley make about corporations and institutions?
(a) He does not make any statements about corporations and institutions.
(b) Corporations and institutions should donate more towards charitable causes.
(c) The moral power of corporations and institutions has to be brought to bear when colored people are treated unjustly.
(d) Corporations and institutions are doing their social obligations to the people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "deadeye"?

2. What report does Maxine Waters refer to that discusses the ills of society, among others?

3. What does Braun think Pontius Pilate is doing?

4. Why is Betye Saar surprised when they get to the restaurant?

5. What does twilight force us to be aware of?

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