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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 many teenagers report they could obtain a gun within an hour?
(a) Three fourths.
(b) Two thirds.
(c) One third.
(d) One fourth.

2. If a teen has been arrested, and has an already existing risk factor, the odds of the youth committing murder are ____________________.
(a) Three times as high.
(b) Nine times as high.
(c) Lower.
(d) Twice as high.

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

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

5. What is one reason homicide rates seem to have declined?
(a) Medical technology saves some that would have died of their wounds ten years ago.
(b) There are fewer homicides than ten years ago.
(c) Fewer homicides are actually reported.
(d) There are fewer guns on the streets than ten years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Garbarino say is true about the middle class, white killers of the modern age?

2. Garbarino says that at risk populations don't cause the epidemic, they _____________________.

3. What does Garbarino see little difference in, in terms of psychological significance?

4. Why does the author blame improved care of premature babies for part of the youth violence issue?

5. Why do 'war zone' areas have higher rates of youth violence?

(see the answer key)

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