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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 15 through 17.

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) 125,000.
(b) 15,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 80,000.

2. What is the title of Part 2, Chapter 9?
(a) “The Outs.”
(b) “The Big Fix.”
(c) “Punks.”
(d) “Nine Days to Manhood.”

3. Who won the bureaucratic paper battle in Part 3, Chapter 14?
(a) Judge Roosevelt Dorn.
(b) Judge Sherill Luke.
(c) The public defender's office.
(d) The district attorney's office.

4. In Part 3, Chapter 14, the DA went after what judge (aside from Judge Dorn)?
(a) Judge William Jefferson.
(b) Judge Sherill Luke.
(c) Judge Paul Skawinski.
(d) Judge Jefferson Williams.

5. Author Humes explains two cases involving Judge Dorn’s reform in the juvenile justice system in Part 2, Chapter 12. The good case involved a young schizophrenic named what?
(a) Rebecca.
(b) Keesha.
(c) Emily.
(d) Latoya.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the boy who is caught in connection with a series of some of the most brutal murders in LA County in Part 3, Chapter 13?

2. What caused Chuck and Ada’s family to become much less happy with Peggy Beckstrand’s work on the Ronald Duncan trial in Part 3, Chapter 13?

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

4. What did Ronald Duncan’s lawyer claim about his taped confession in the trial?

5. The victims of the murder that Ronald Duncan was tried for owned what franchise?

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