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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 clothing item differentiates the levels of progress within the center?
(a) Color of pants.
(b) Color of shoelaces.
(c) Color of ties.
(d) Color of shirts.

2. How long has the author been studying violent youth?
(a) Twelve years.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Fifty years.
(d) Twenty five years.

3. What does Garbarino say is true about the middle class, white killers of the modern age?
(a) They are copy cat killers.
(b) They too show an accumulation of risk factors.
(c) They are spoiled.
(d) They are not truly violent.

4. What does Garbarino claim is inside almost every violent teenager?
(a) An untreated traumatized child.
(b) An angry person.
(c) A violent killer.
(d) A depressed person.

5. Why does this development hit smaller cities even harder?
(a) There are fewer schools to send children to, so teachers are overworked.
(b) There are more schools to send children to, so only the poorest are exposed
(c) There are fewer schools to send children to, so all are exposed.
(d) There are fewer schools to send children to, so everyone has a lower education.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many high school boys carry a potentially lethal weapon?

2. How has social policy contributed to youth violence?

3. What is the leading cause of death for young minority males?

4. Having a history of criminal violence in the family makes one's chances of committing murder ___________________.

5. Why does Garbarino believe the nation took notice of cases such as those of Michael Carneal, Mitchell Johnson, and Andrew Golden?

(see the answer key)

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