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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What phrase does Garbarino use to explain the way the nation reacts to situations, based on color and socioeconomic status?
(a) Class and color bias.
(b) Class and race bias.
(c) Economic and class bias.
(d) Race and color bias.

2. What is a risk for boys who grow up without fathers?
(a) They will become early fathers.
(b) They will starve.
(c) They will be uneducated.
(d) They will become 'man of the house'.

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

4. What does the author admit he is trying to do by writing this book?
(a) Make sense of youth violence.
(b) Make sense of grief.
(c) Help the victims of youth violence.
(d) Help heal youth.

5. An extreme lack of confidence in the future is called ___________________.
(a) Angry thinking.
(b) End thinking.
(c) Terminal thinking.
(d) Depressed thinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. The monastery approach focuses on ____________________.

2. In a negative social environment, vulnerable children should be understood as __________________.

3. Learning about the destruction of human bodies is __________________.

4. These traits are "hallmarks" of adolescence.

5. Why is the morality of violent boys often primitive?

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