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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does HRO stand for in the narrative?
(a) Hostile Risk Operation.
(b) High Risk Offender.
(c) Humane Response Officer.
(d) Honored Response Officer.

2. At the terminus of what street does the narrator describe a guard shack overlooking Central lockup’s drive-in entrance in “Intake”?
(a) Atlas Street.
(b) Alcazar Street.
(c) Alcatraz Street.
(d) Alpine Street.

3. Who was the new intake case charged with murder associated with a botched robbery in “Intake”?
(a) George Trevino.
(b) Roy Sukoda.
(c) Geri Vance.
(d) Peggy Beckstrand.

4. In Elias’s poem from “Intake,” he described turning a Walkman’s motor into what?
(a) A tattoo machine.
(b) A drill.
(c) A gun.
(d) A taser.

5. What element of an adult courtroom is missing in the juvenile court system?
(a) Lawyers.
(b) A jury.
(c) Bailiffs.
(d) A judge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does “ACLU” stand for?

2. How many juvenile courthouses served Los Angeles County in 1994, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1?

3. How many kids does the narrator claim are warehoused at Central Juvenile Hall in “Intake”?

4. Geri Vance states in the beginning of Part 1, Chapter4, that his parents’ main income was from selling what?

5. Ronald Duncan is described as just having come in on what bus in the beginning of Part 1, Chapter 3?

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