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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 13 and 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term is used in the book to describe the practice of flooding a judge with paperwork to manipulate him into changing his behavior?
(a) Pulping.
(b) Projecting.
(c) Papering.
(d) Precipitating.

2. When was Gil Garcetti born?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1948.

3. What term refers to the imposition of military rule over designated areas on an emergency basis?
(a) Dictatorship amendment.
(b) Refugee waiver.
(c) Martial law.
(d) Code of war.

4. Who was the Republican running for California Governor in 1994, according to the author in Part 2, Chapter 10?
(a) John Sloan.
(b) Paul Anderson.
(c) Joshua Jacobs.
(d) Peter Wilson.

5. What was John Sloan’s father’s profession?
(a) Banker.
(b) Mason.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Plumber.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Peggy Beckstrand’s boss who spoke with Judge Dorn in Part 2, Chapter 12?

2. To whom did Peggy Beckstrand decide to grant immunity in the Ronald Duncan case?

3. The billboard overlooking the street to the Central lockup facility is described by the narrator in “Intake” as showcasing a man wearing what?

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

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?

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