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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 _______________________.
(a) The natural point.
(b) The dire point.
(c) The tipping point.
(d) The ending point.

2. What has increased along with youth violence in the United States?
(a) Median incomes.
(b) Racism.
(c) Adult violence.
(d) The prevalence of risk factors associated with youth violence.

3. This form of attachment indicates a high stress level and inconsolability.
(a) Disorganized disoriented.
(b) Secure.
(c) Insecure avoidant.
(d) Insecure ambivalent.

4. What does the accumulation approach to developmental threat show us about success?
(a) That teens are better off with a balance of risk and support.
(b) That teens can have no support and still succeed.
(c) That teens have to be risk free to succeed.
(d) That teens do not have to be risk free to succeed.

5. What two patterns of fathers are common in the history of violent boys?
(a) An absent father and an abusive father.
(b) An abusive father and a strict father.
(c) An abuse father and a loving father.
(d) An absent father and a loving father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is often the result of emotional disassociation?

2. What gift does Garbarino give Malcolm that makes him cry?

3. What is Garbarino trying to point out throughout these chapters, in terms of the cause of aggressive behaviors?

4. What has developed in medium cities that has resulted in even more youth violence?

5. Why do many adults avoid teenagers?

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