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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface - Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What has developed in medium cities that has resulted in even more youth violence?
(a) Racism.
(b) Poverty.
(c) The same 'war zones' that exist in large cities.
(d) The same gangs that exist in large cities.

3. What surprised Garbarino about his experiences with the prosecuting attorney?
(a) The attorney didn't care about the crime.
(b) The attorney only worried about the victims.
(c) The attorney only worried about the boys' crime, not his life.
(d) The attorney didn't care about the law.

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

5. Having a history of _____________ increases the likelihood one will commit murder.
(a) Memory loss.
(b) Religious intolerance.
(c) Teen pregnancy.
(d) Abuse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What else is an important factor in youth violence?

2. What did the Chicago Tribune publish in 1993?

3. What does Garbarino claim is the point of change in the social decline of neighborhoods?

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

5. What does the author argue is the other factor when, combined with rick factors, influences homicide rates?

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