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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do some children who are not abused become violent children?
(a) Their parents are withdrawn, but not abusive.
(b) Their parents are antisocial.
(c) Their parents are bad.
(d) Their parents are often gone.

2. How has social policy contributed to youth violence?
(a) Social policy has caused race battles.
(b) Social policy has increased public housing.
(c) Social policy has caused clustered public housing.
(d) Social policy has caused more poverty.

3. 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 do not have to be risk free to succeed.
(c) That teens can have no support and still succeed.
(d) That teens have to be risk free to succeed.

4. Garbarino notes that kids have not changed since he was a teenager, but that this has.
(a) Gender roles.
(b) Race relations.
(c) Social environment.
(d) Social pressure.

5. This disease is one caused by trauma.
(a) LSD.
(b) PTSD.
(c) RSV.
(d) ADHD.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can help turn the tide for violent boys, according to research by Kellam?

2. What does Garbarino say is true about the middle class, white killers of the modern age?

3. Many extremely violent boys have experienced trauma to ___________________.

4. The term for feeling constantly ashamed, disgraced, humiliated, and worthless is ____________________.

5. What is disassociation?

(see the answer key)

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