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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 Garbarino accuse people of not wanting to do, when it comes to violent youth?
(a) Understand them.
(b) Punish them.
(c) Listen to them.
(d) Incarcerate them.

2. What did the Chicago Tribune publish in 1993?
(a) In depth profiles of adults killed.
(b) In depth profiles of children killed.
(c) In depth profiles of everyone killed.
(d) In depth profiles of police killed.

3. How many high school boys carry a potentially lethal weapon?
(a) Fifty percent.
(b) Thirty percent.
(c) Five percent.
(d) Eighty percent.

4. What else is an important factor in youth violence?
(a) How kids act around peers.
(b) How kids think and feel about religion.
(c) How kids act around adults.
(d) How kids think and feel about the world.

5. What did some adults do in response to the announcing of the verdict in the Jonesboro trial?
(a) Threatened to blow up the prison.
(b) Threatened to kill one another.
(c) Threatened to kill themselves.
(d) Threatened to kill the young male perpetrators.

Short Answer Questions

1. What population has the highest rate of truancy?

2. What did Josh mean when he asked his father to note the color and names of those in the newspaper?

3. Why does Garbarino try to help others understand violent youth?

4. How has social policy contributed to youth violence?

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

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