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

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

3. Judge Roosevelt Dorn opened his courtroom punctually at what time each day, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 4?
(a) 8:30 a.m.
(b) 6:00 a.m.
(c) 7:00 a.m.
(d) 10:30 a.m.

4. How many juvenile courthouses served Los Angeles County in 1994, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) 10.
(b) 3.
(c) 20.
(d) 5.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Camp Resnick located?

2. What Section of the California Penal Code defines premeditated murder?

3. Who is described as wielding “as a kind of pretrial judge, jury, and jailer rolled into one” in “Intake”?

4. What does HRO stand for in the narrative?

5. At the terminus of what street does the narrator describe a guard shack overlooking Central lockup’s drive-in entrance in “Intake”?

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