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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Garbarino trying to point out throughout these chapters, in terms of the cause of aggressive behaviors?
(a) Only the family unit is important.
(b) Only peer structure is important.
(c) Everything must be taken in context.
(d) Only biological triggers are important.

2. What does Garbarino claim is the point of change in the social decline of neighborhoods?
(a) The moment when teen pregnancy rises above 6 percent.
(b) The moment when gang membership rises above 6 percent.
(c) The moment when affluent leadership drops below 6 percent.
(d) The moment when parental monitoring falls below 6 percent.

3. When bad behavior starts at this point, it is particularly worrisome.
(a) Any onset.
(b) Adolescent onset.
(c) Child onset.
(d) Adult onset.

4. What did the two boys in Gloverville have in their car that they drove around for several days?
(a) A dead bird.
(b) A dead body.
(c) A stray dog.
(d) A kidnapped victim.

5. What is deadly petulance?
(a) A sense of pressure.
(b) A sense of arrogance.
(c) A sense of religious intent.
(d) A sense of pain.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What gift does Garbarino give Malcolm that makes him cry?

3. What is compartmentalization?

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

5. What is most important in the effect of parents on children?

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