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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the elderly nun that attended to the kids housed in Central Juvenile Hall?
(a) Sister Christina.
(b) Sister Emily.
(c) Sister Janet.
(d) Sister Sarah.

3. According to the narrator in “Intake,” the Central lockup facility was “ancient by Los Angeles standards,” meaning that it had been standing since before what?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) WWII.
(c) WWI.
(d) The Spanish American War.

4. Ronald Duncan was charged with double murder for killing whom, according to the narrator in “Intake”?
(a) His brother and sister.
(b) His employers.
(c) His father and brother.
(d) His mother and sister.

5. What does California Penal Code Section 245 address?
(a) Murder.
(b) Assault with a deadly weapon.
(c) Armed burglary.
(d) Arson.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Prologue of the book gives a setting of Gila County, Arizona, on what date?

2. Where did John Sloan’s grandparents immigrate to America from?

3. What was the name of Carla James’s parole officer in Part 1, Chapter 2?

4. How old was Luis Santos at the time of his arrest, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 5?

5. Where does Geri Vance hide his ongoing autobiography so that it won’t be confiscated at night, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 4?

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