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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Why does Garbarino try to help others understand violent youth?
(a) Because he wants to rehabilitate society.
(b) Because he wants people to better themselves.
(c) Because he wants to help people learn about themselves.
(d) Because he wants to rescue the person inside the violent youth.

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

4. What does the author argue is the other factor when, combined with rick factors, influences homicide rates?
(a) Economic status.
(b) The role of race.
(c) Race.
(d) Gender.

5. What does Garbarino see little difference in, in terms of psychological significance?
(a) Domestic abuse and homicide.
(b) Robbery and armed robbery.
(c) Suicide and murder.
(d) Murder and violent assault.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are violent children learning about adults in their lives at early ages?

2. What generates an "intolerability of existence", according to Gilligan?

3. What is often the result of emotional disassociation?

4. How has social policy contributed to youth violence?

5. How many teenagers report they could obtain a gun within an hour?

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