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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 “ACLU” stand for?
(a) Architecture and Construction Law Union.
(b) The American Civil Liberties Union.
(c) American Criminal Law Union.
(d) American Corporate Law Union.

2. What title did Peggy Beckstrand hold in 1994, according to the narrative in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) Defense Attorney.
(b) Deputy District Attorney.
(c) LA County Sheriff.
(d) Editor for the LA Times.

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

4. How old was Ronald Duncan when he allegedly committed double homicide?
(a) 19.
(b) 17.
(c) 12.
(d) 15.

5. Carla James was “jumped in” with what street gang, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 2?
(a) Venice 13.
(b) Tepa 13.
(c) Hoover Crips.
(d) Inglewood Crips.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator in “Intake” describe as “both status symbols and necessary tools of the trade in this information age”?

2. How many intake cases are described as having been processed in a little over four hours in “Intake”?

3. How old was the schoolgirl that was caught with gang tattoos and distributing fliers for a party in Part 1, Chapter 1?

4. In Elias’s poem from “Intake,” he described turning a Walkman’s motor into what?

5. How old was Carla James when her father died?

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