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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 one reason homicide rates seem to have declined?
(a) Fewer homicides are actually reported.
(b) Medical technology saves some that would have died of their wounds ten years ago.
(c) There are fewer guns on the streets than ten years ago.
(d) There are fewer homicides than ten years ago.

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

3. What do children use to measure the danger around them?
(a) The reaction of those around them.
(b) The thoughts of public figures.
(c) Their own thoughts and emotions.
(d) The feelings of siblings.

4. Why is parental abandonment particularly dangerous?
(a) Children in the care of non-biological relatives are at greater risk of rejection.
(b) Children in the care of non-biological relatives are at greater risk of psychological issues.
(c) Children in the care of non-biological relatives are at greater risk for abuse.
(d) Children in the care of non-biological relatives are at greater risk of a lack of education.

5. What two patterns of fathers are common in the history of violent boys?
(a) An absent father and an abusive father.
(b) An absent father and a loving father.
(c) An abuse father and a loving father.
(d) An abusive father and a strict father.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to General S.L.A. Marshall, resilience is not:

2. What does Garbarino claim that boys, because of masculine socialization, feel an intense pressure to be?

3. According to Garbarino's interview of third graders in Illinois, how many believed they could get a gun if needed?

4. What has increased along with youth violence in the United States?

5. What does Julio represent?

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