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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What other areas in the world have seen youth violence due to racism and cultural values?
(a) South America and Europe.
(b) Germany and Austria.
(c) Russia and China.
(d) South Africa and Australia.

2. What population has the highest rate of truancy?
(a) Those in two parent households.
(b) Those without any parents.
(c) Those in homeless shelters.
(d) Those in family groups other than a two parent household.

3. Why do many adults avoid teenagers?
(a) They see them as disrespectful.
(b) They see them as annoying.
(c) They see them as dangerous.
(d) They see them as alien and inscrutable.

4. What is most important in the effect of parents on children?
(a) How parental behavior shames the child.
(b) How the parent's subtle actions shape the child.
(c) How parental behavior organizes the child's life.
(d) How the parent's subtle actions hurt the child.

5. Why do 'war zone' areas have higher rates of youth violence?
(a) The people have higher buildups of risk factors.
(b) The people are uneducated.
(c) The people have broken families.
(d) The people are impoverished.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the accumulation approach to developmental threat show us about success?

2. What happened to Malcolm's girlfriend?

3. What can happen in these early instances of violence in young boys?

4. The term for the moment when a small change in the presence of a germ produces a big change in the rate of infection is _______________________.

5. Why does a lowered resilience and coping ability compound negative social influences?

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