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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. How many active cases does the author describe within the Los Angeles County juvenile court system in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) 80,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 15,000.
(d) 125,000.

2. How old was Carla James when her father died?
(a) 4.
(b) 9.
(c) 12.
(d) 7.

3. Judge Dorn worked his way through law school working as what, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 4?
(a) A piano teacher.
(b) A courtroom bailiff.
(c) A cook.
(d) A banker.

4. How many intake cases are described as having been processed in a little over four hours in “Intake”?
(a) 27.
(b) 3.
(c) 8.
(d) 15.

5. The courtroom described in Part 1, Chapter 1, is what branch of the Lost Angeles Superior Court?
(a) Rosa Parks Branch.
(b) Thurgood Marshall Branch.
(c) George Washington Branch.
(d) Frederick Douglass Branch.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By what percentage did juvenile murder rates rise from the 1970s to 1994, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1?

3. What does California Penal Code Section 245 address?

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

5. What judge is described by the author in Part 1, Chapter 2 as having seen “potential” in Carla James, and thus gave her a lesser sentence for theft and assault?

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