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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 is compartmentalization?
(a) The tendency to disassociate from emotions.
(b) The tendency to put feelings such as fear out of consciousness.
(c) The tendency to put feelings such as fear in the forefront.
(d) The tendency to avoid emotional attachment.

2. What did the Chicago Tribune publish in 1993?
(a) In depth profiles of police killed.
(b) In depth profiles of children killed.
(c) In depth profiles of everyone killed.
(d) In depth profiles of adults killed.

3. What does the author reveal about himself as he discusses difficult children?
(a) He was a difficult child.
(b) He was always well behaved.
(c) He doesn't like working with difficult children.
(d) His brother was a difficult child.

4. What is often the result of emotional disassociation?
(a) Social avoidance.
(b) Repressed anger.
(c) A lack of intelligence.
(d) Shyness.

5. What does Julio represent?
(a) A failure.
(b) A success.
(c) A lost cause.
(d) A tragedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did some adults do in response to the announcing of the verdict in the Jonesboro trial?

2. What is a risk for boys who grow up without fathers?

3. How do some boys become lost, even without purposeful abuse and neglect?

4. How can adults help repair damage from disrupted attachments in children?

5. What has developed in medium cities that has resulted in even more youth violence?

(see the answer key)

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