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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the friends decide to do because of the situation at the BART station?
(a) They decide to work their way to the streets above.
(b) They decide to go into the train tunnel.
(c) They decide to try to go home.
(d) They decide to jump across the tracks.

2. Who is Jose-Luis Torrez?
(a) The fourth member of the gang that includes Marcus.
(b) A student who sets the chemistry lab on fire by accident.
(c) An honor student who hates Marcus.
(d) A clerk in a convenience store who gives the gang soda.

3. Where does Marcus find himself when he is taken out of the jeep and moved?
(a) In a motel room.
(b) On a boat.
(c) In a 16-wheeler truck.
(d) In a school cafeteria with lots of other students.

4. What do the papers say that Marcus is given to sign?
(a) That he was questioned and held voluntarily.
(b) That he admits to being in a terrorist cell.
(c) That he was detained because of suspicious activity.
(d) That he was held involuntarily.

5. What does Marcus try to explain?
(a) That they are just students skipping school.
(b) That his father is a cop.
(c) That his mother is the chief of police.
(d) That they are sorry for skipping school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Benson tell Marcus to do until the police are contacted?

2. Why does Darryl not want to skip school?

3. What does Marcus later say might have been better for him to have done at this point?

4. What does Marcus refuse to do when asked?

5. Where do the captors set up interviews?

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