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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many homicides are there in the U.S. each year?
(a) 2,300.
(b) 23,000.
(c) 230.
(d) 230,000.

2. What are some traits that put a child at risk for becoming aggressive?
(a) High activity level and a lack of fear.
(b) High activity level and increased fear.
(c) High activity level and a lack of boredom.
(d) High activity level and a genius intelligence.

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

4. Having a history of criminal violence in the family makes one's chances of committing murder ___________________.
(a) Three times as high.
(b) Nine times as high.
(c) Twice as low.
(d) Twice as high.

5. Rejected children are at a higher risk for __________________.
(a) Social problems.
(b) Physiological problems.
(c) Psychological problems.
(d) Educational problems.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author admit he is trying to do by writing this book?

2. What did the two boys in Gloverville have in their car that they drove around for several days?

3. What is deadly petulance?

4. A lack of positive purpose is one of the consequences of _____________________.

5. Youth exposed to violence at home and in society are more apt to develop this, according to the fifth rule of violent boys' lives.

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