Multiple Choice Test – Cars and Community

by Jen Schneider

 
Instructions:
 
Follow the rules you’ve followed hundreds of times before. 
Just another classic Short Answer, Multiple Choice Test. Open Book. 
Complete as often as you’d like. Answers will not change.
 
Note: 
 
Answers are sometimes, perhaps often, False.
Not all Answers are Solutions.
Some Solutions depend upon Questions other than those asked.
Test writers are anonymous. Rule makers are sometimes anonymous, too.
 
 
Question 1.
 
Blue Chevy, going the speed limit, was pulled over
At the corner of 10th and Main after turning
right at a no turn on red intersection. Signage
was clear. Weather also clear. Driver - Female. Mid-thirties. 
Black. Passenger. Teen, fourteen or fifteen years of age.
Both wore buckles.
 
Why was the passenger asked to step out of the vehicle?
 
Question 2.
 
Three females, mid-twenties, are incarcerated
and awaiting trial. Two will eventually be found
not guilty of the crimes for which they were charged.
The third? Charges will be dropped due to insufficient
evidence. All maintained their innocence at all times. 
 
Why did none of the three vote in the last election? 
 
Question 3.
 
Setting. Individual A is suspected of forging
a check. Individual B is also suspected
of forging a check. Neither Individual A
nor Individual B forged a check. Individual
A lives in a zip code that ends
in an even number. Individual B lives in a zip
code that ends in an odd number. 
 
Why is Individual A treated differently than Individual B?
 
Question 4.
 
Setting. Individual A is suspected of forging
a check. Individual B is also suspected
of forging a check. Both Individual A
and Individual B forged a check. Individual
A lives in a zip code that ends
in an even number. Individual B lives in a zip
code that ends in an odd number. 
 
Why is Individual A treated differently than Individual B? 


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"Multiple Choice Test – Cars and Community" was first publishes by Warm Milk Publishing   

Jen Schneider is an educator, attorney, and writer. She lives, writes, and works in small spaces throughout Philadelphia. Recent work appears in The Popular Culture Studies Journal, Toho Journal, The New Verse News, Zingara Poetry Review, Streetlight Magazine, Chaleur Magazine, LSE Review of Books, and other literary and scholarly journals.