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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 does the author argue is the other factor when, combined with rick factors, influences homicide rates?
(a) Economic status.
(b) Race.
(c) The role of race.
(d) Gender.

2. What book is a favorite of the boys at the center?
(a) Autobiography of Malcolm X.
(b) To Kill a Mockingbird.
(c) Catcher in the Rye.
(d) Red Mars.

3. What is Garbarino trying to point out throughout these chapters, in terms of the cause of aggressive behaviors?
(a) Everything must be taken in context.
(b) Only peer structure is important.
(c) Only the family unit is important.
(d) Only biological triggers are important.

4. What is the name of the game children in 'war zone' neighborhoods play with blocks?
(a) Death.
(b) War.
(c) Funeral.
(d) Gangland.

5. If a teen has been arrested, and has an already existing risk factor, the odds of the youth committing murder are ____________________.
(a) Lower.
(b) Twice as high.
(c) Nine times as high.
(d) Three times as high.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is disassociation?

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

3. Garbarino says that at risk populations don't cause the epidemic, they _____________________.

4. What population has the highest rate of truancy?

5. What is the name of center Garbarino helps run?

(see the answer key)

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