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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many teenagers report they could obtain a gun within an hour?
(a) One fourth.
(b) Three fourths.
(c) One third.
(d) Two thirds.

2. Why do some children who are not abused become violent children?
(a) Their parents are often gone.
(b) Their parents are antisocial.
(c) Their parents are bad.
(d) Their parents are withdrawn, but not abusive.

3. What are violent children learning about adults in their lives at early ages?
(a) That adults cannot protect them.
(b) That adults are childish.
(c) That adults are cruel.
(d) That adults are irresponsible.

4. Learning about the destruction of human bodies is __________________.
(a) Problematic.
(b) Detrimental.
(c) Traumatic.
(d) Emotional.

5. Garbarino says that at risk populations don't cause the epidemic, they _____________________.
(a) Have too many issues to combat one more.
(b) Have too few adults to combat the issues.
(c) Are more ripe for infection.
(d) Don't care, so they don't fight the infection.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What two patterns of fathers are common in the history of violent boys?

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

4. How many high school boys carry a potentially lethal weapon?

5. Which is the most common parenting problem, according to the federal government?

(see the answer key)

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