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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the accumulation approach to developmental threat show us about success?
(a) That teens have to be risk free to succeed.
(b) That teens do not have to be risk free to succeed.
(c) That teens are better off with a balance of risk and support.
(d) That teens can have no support and still succeed.

2. What else is an important factor in youth violence?
(a) How kids act around peers.
(b) How kids act around adults.
(c) How kids think and feel about religion.
(d) How kids think and feel about the world.

3. Why does Garbarino believe the nation took notice of cases such as those of Michael Carneal, Mitchell Johnson, and Andrew Golden?
(a) They happened in suburbs and small towns, and involved minority boys.
(b) They happened in big towns, and involved minority boys.
(c) They happened in big towns, and involved white boys.
(d) They happened in suburbs and small towns, and involved white boys.

4. What gift does Garbarino give Malcolm that makes him cry?
(a) A journal.
(b) A book.
(c) A car.
(d) A guitar.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is often the result of emotional disassociation?

2. What does Garbarino claim is one of the most important aspects of child development?

3. What did the Chicago Tribune publish in 1993?

4. What does Garbarino claim is inside almost every violent teenager?

5. What can help a child who is abused overcome his/her tainted view of the world?

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