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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do abused children have a tendency to view the world differently?
(a) They have a dislike for everyone.
(b) Their abuse often causes neurological disorder.
(c) They create abnormal social maps by adapting to abuse.
(d) They feel helplessness, which turns to anger.

2. What has been found to lower as developmental threats accumulate?
(a) Blood pressure.
(b) Temper.
(c) IQ.
(d) Body temperature.

3. Having a history of _____________ increases the likelihood one will commit murder.
(a) Religious intolerance.
(b) Abuse.
(c) Memory loss.
(d) Teen pregnancy.

4. What does Garbarino say is true about the middle class, white killers of the modern age?
(a) They are copy cat killers.
(b) They too show an accumulation of risk factors.
(c) They are spoiled.
(d) They are not truly violent.

5. The term for the moment when a small change in the presence of a germ produces a big change in the rate of infection is _______________________.
(a) The tipping point.
(b) The natural point.
(c) The dire point.
(d) The ending point.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do these various options for early violent behavior often depend on?

2. What phrase does Garbarino use to explain the way the nation reacts to situations, based on color and socioeconomic status?

3. Having a history of criminal violence in the family makes one's chances of committing murder ___________________.

4. What does the author reveal about himself as he discusses difficult children?

5. Why does Garbarino refer to these violent offenders as 'lost boys'?

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