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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. Geri Vance states in the beginning of Part 1, Chapter4, that his parents’ main income was from selling what?
(a) Heroin.
(b) Cocain.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Opium.

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

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

4. Carla James was sentenced to spend how much time at Camp Resnick for theft and assault charges, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 2?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 9 months.
(d) 1 year.

5. How many kids does the narrator claim are warehoused at Central Juvenile Hall in “Intake”?
(a) 1,600.
(b) 850.
(c) 1.200.
(d) 650.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Prologue of the book gives a setting of Gila County, Arizona, on what date?

3. Ronald Duncan was charged with committing double murder with what weapon?

4. According to the narrator in “Intake,” the Central lockup facility was “ancient by Los Angeles standards,” meaning that it had been standing since before what?

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

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