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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What complaint does Reverend Tom Choi hear about Koreans, Americans, and blacks?
(a) Blacks did not patronize Korean-American businesses.
(b) Korean-Americans did not allow blacks into their territories.
(c) Korean-Americans did not patronize black businesses.
(d) Blacks did not allow Korean-Americans into their territories.

2. What does Braun think Pontius Pilate is doing?
(a) Politics and marriage.
(b) Being a ruler and being a counselor to his people.
(c) Love and hate for blacks.
(d) Trying to balance punishing an innocent man and keeping the public from uprising.

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

4. Who does Maxine Waters call to complain about many things that are being neglected and need attention?
(a) Rodney King's aunt.
(b) The local radio station.
(c) The President, the governor, and other persons of authority.
(d) Oprah Winfrey and Angelina Jolie.

5. What is Hami Bhabha's occupation?
(a) Movie producer.
(b) Writer, scholar, and literary critic.
(c) Journalist.
(d) Scriptwriter.

6. What do people tell Gladis Sibrian while she is growing up?
(a) She cannot change anything in Panama.
(b) She will not be listened to because she is a woman.
(c) She needs to kill the President first.
(d) She can do anything she wants.

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

8. What do the police officers tell Braun's son in an encounter?
(a) They will kill him if he did not shut up.
(b) They will put a screw through his chest if he did not shut up.
(c) They will find a way to hunt him down.
(d) They will kill his dad if he did not shut up.

9. How does Gladis Sibrian describe the riots?
(a) Upheaval.
(b) Social explosion.
(c) Uprising.
(d) Chaos.

10. What book does Elaine Brown author?
(a) A Taste of Vinegar.
(b) A Taste of Sugar.
(c) A Taste of Acid.
(d) A Taste of Power.

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

12. What statement does Bill Bradley make about the Rodney King beating?
(a) It was so unusual that a law has to be passed addressing it.
(b) It has nothing to do with him.
(c) It was nothing new.
(d) It was a violation of human rights and should be totally penalized.

13. Where does Maxine Waters give her speech after Daryl Gates resigns from the LAPD?
(a) At the Beverly Hills Hotel.
(b) At the Polo Lounge.
(c) At the Beverly Center.
(d) At the First African Methodist Episcopal Church.

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

15. What statement best describes Bill Bradley's stand on the laws of the land?
(a) He is outraged that someone should suggest differences in the treatment of people.
(b) He acknowledges that the law treats different people in different ways.
(c) He does not acknowledge that the law treats different people in different ways.
(d) He does not like discussing the laws and people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the young female student from the University of Southern California afraid of?

2. Who is Harland W. Braun defending in the Rodney King trial?

3. In what particular division is there no riot-related death, as is discovered by Gilmour?

4. Where is the Reverend Tom Choi a minister at?

5. What does Betye's companion think about the verdict?

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