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

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

3. What is one of the central controversies in child development, in terms of bad behavior?
(a) Whether bad behavior is socially acceptable.
(b) Whether bad behavior is taught.
(c) Whether bad behavior is a reaction to abuse.
(d) Whether bad behavior is programmed genetically.

4. What generates an "intolerability of existence", according to Gilligan?
(a) Frustration.
(b) Disbelief.
(c) Anger.
(d) Shame.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The term for feeling constantly ashamed, disgraced, humiliated, and worthless is ____________________.

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

5. Why does this development hit smaller cities even harder?

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