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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) Incarcerate them.
(c) Punish them.
(d) Listen to them.

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

3. Why does Garbarino try to help others understand violent youth?
(a) Because he wants people to better themselves.
(b) Because he wants to help people learn about themselves.
(c) Because he wants to rescue the person inside the violent youth.
(d) Because he wants to rehabilitate society.

4. 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 everyone has a lower education.
(d) There are fewer schools to send children to, so all are exposed.

5. In what year did four shootings occur in areas that were not typically hubs of youth violence?
(a) 1998.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1987.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What other type of violence has increased among young men?

4. Why does Garbarino refer to these violent offenders as 'lost boys'?

5. What did Julio become in prison?

(see the answer key)

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