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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many high school boys carry a potentially lethal weapon?
(a) Five percent.
(b) Thirty percent.
(c) Fifty percent.
(d) Eighty percent.

2. What does Garbarino claim can lead us to humane treatment and rehabilitation?
(a) Understanding the gang culture.
(b) Learning about the life experiences of violent youth.
(c) Better education.
(d) Learning about substance abuse.

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

4. What keeps the soul from dying, according to Garbarino?
(a) A strong religious background.
(b) A resilience to suffering.
(c) A strong sense of self worth.
(d) Temperament, resilience, love, and divine intervention.

5. What does Garbarino accuse people of not wanting to do, when it comes to violent youth?
(a) Listen to them.
(b) Understand them.
(c) Incarcerate them.
(d) Punish them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Garbarino see little difference in, in terms of psychological significance?

2. Having a history of criminal violence in the family makes one's chances of committing murder ___________________.

3. What does Garbarino claim is one of the most important aspects of child development?

4. What can help a child who is abused overcome his/her tainted view of the world?

5. If a teen has been arrested, and has an already existing risk factor, the odds of the youth committing murder are ____________________.

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