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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 1 and 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was the new intake case charged with murder associated with a botched robbery in “Intake”?
(a) Peggy Beckstrand.
(b) Geri Vance.
(c) Roy Sukoda.
(d) George Trevino.

3. What does HRO stand for in the narrative?
(a) High Risk Offender.
(b) Hostile Risk Operation.
(c) Humane Response Officer.
(d) Honored Response Officer.

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

5. In Elias’s poem from “Intake,” he described turning a Walkman’s motor into what?
(a) A drill.
(b) A gun.
(c) A taser.
(d) A tattoo machine.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the narrator in “Intake,” the new arrivals were taken where at Central lockup when they arrived?

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

4. According to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1, violent offenses by juveniles had risen how much in the past 5 years?

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

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