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

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

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

4. How many kids does the author say were charged as adults for serious crimes because they were over 16 in the past year in Part 1, Chapter 3?
(a) Over 1,500.
(b) Over 4,000.
(c) Over 7,500.
(d) Over 900.

5. How old was the newly appointed Judge Roosevelt Dorn in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) 46.
(b) 57.
(c) 39.
(d) 32.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does HRO stand for in the narrative?

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

3. What element of an adult courtroom is missing in the juvenile court system?

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

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

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