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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does “CYA” refer to in Part 2, Chapter 11?
(a) Criminal Youth Advocacy.
(b) California Youth Authority.
(c) Crime Year Assessment.
(d) California Yurt Association.

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) Frederick Douglass Branch.
(d) Rosa Parks Branch.

3. Where was Luis Santos taken when he was taken from Juvenile Hall in Part 1, Chapter 5?
(a) Los Angeles County Jail.
(b) The Los Angeles Halfway House.
(c) His mother's house.
(d) The hospital.

4. The author asserts in Part 3, Chapter 16 that over how many kids are arrested every year in the United States?
(a) 1.2 million.
(b) 300,000.
(c) 700,000.
(d) 2 million.

5. Judge Roosevelt Dorn opened his courtroom punctually at what time each day, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 4?
(a) 6:00 a.m.
(b) 7:00 a.m.
(c) 8:30 a.m.
(d) 10:30 a.m.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What male social worker helped Carla James by showing her the lives of those who came out of the facility in Part 2, Chapter 11?

3. How many known members were there belonging to the 900 street gangs in Los Angeles County in 1994, according to the author in Part 4, Chapter 18?

4. The author relates that Luis Santos had been a gang member since what age in Part 1, Chapter 5?

5. George Trevino is described by the author as a foster kid or what, in Part 1, Chapter 6?

(see the answer key)

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