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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 do some boys become lost, even without purposeful abuse and neglect?
(a) A withdrawal of positive adults, through divorce.
(b) A withdrawal of parental guidance.
(c) A withdrawal of attention.
(d) A withdrawal of love.

2. The term used in the book for the negative elements of the social environment that contaminate children is ___________________.
(a) Social toxicity.
(b) Social pressure.
(c) Social relations.
(d) Social bias.

3. How many kids with negative and aggressive social maps become violent?
(a) Thirty five percent.
(b) Five percent.
(c) Twenty percent.
(d) Ninety percent.

4. Having a history of _____________ increases the likelihood one will commit murder.
(a) Religious intolerance.
(b) Teen pregnancy.
(c) Memory loss.
(d) Abuse.

5. What often begins the spiral of depression, anger, and violence in teenage boys?
(a) Neurological problems.
(b) Frustration due to poverty.
(c) Shame at abandonment.
(d) Anger at school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the technical term for the disorder that results in highly troubled young boys who constantly misbehave?

2. Children who lack attachment abilities have difficultly learning ____________________.

3. What does Michael note his brother Robert showed that made him unlikable?

4. How long has the author been studying violent youth?

5. Why are the homicide rates of war veterans so much smaller?

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