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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of the game children in 'war zone' neighborhoods play with blocks?
(a) War.
(b) Funeral.
(c) Death.
(d) Gangland.

4. What did Josh mean when he asked his father to note the color and names of those in the newspaper?
(a) He was referring to the fact that all in the paper were Hispanic.
(b) He was referring to the fact that most were black or Hispanic.
(c) He was referring to the fact that all in the paper had odd names.
(d) He was referring to the fact that all in the paper were white.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many homicides are there in the U.S. each year?

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

4. What did the Chicago Tribune publish in 1993?

5. What does Julio represent?

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