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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 create abnormal social maps by adapting to abuse.
(b) They have a dislike for everyone.
(c) They feel helplessness, which turns to anger.
(d) Their abuse often causes neurological disorder.

2. What is often the result of emotional disassociation?
(a) Social avoidance.
(b) Shyness.
(c) Repressed anger.
(d) A lack of intelligence.

3. Why does a lowered resilience and coping ability compound negative social influences?
(a) Because these factors combine to lower emotional response.
(b) Because these factors combine to increase violence.
(c) Because these factors combine to increase anger.
(d) Because these factors combine to lower self worth.

4. What does the author admit he is trying to do by writing this book?
(a) Make sense of grief.
(b) Help heal youth.
(c) Help the victims of youth violence.
(d) Make sense of youth violence.

5. Some children are more affected by this than others, according to psychologist Leonard Eron.
(a) Low intelligence.
(b) Fear.
(c) Emotional distress.
(d) Television violence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one hypothesis about why some children have lower resting heart rates?

2. How did an end to segregation allow for the growth of youth violence?

3. What percentage of American kids have been found to be in need of professional mental health intervention?

4. What other type of violence has increased among young men?

5. What are some traits that put a child at risk for becoming aggressive?

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