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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 book is a favorite of the boys at the center?
(a) Red Mars.
(b) To Kill a Mockingbird.
(c) Catcher in the Rye.
(d) Autobiography of Malcolm X.

2. What does Garbarino claim can lead us to humane treatment and rehabilitation?
(a) Learning about the life experiences of violent youth.
(b) Learning about substance abuse.
(c) Understanding the gang culture.
(d) Better education.

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

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

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) Fewer homicides are actually reported.
(c) There are fewer homicides than ten years ago.
(d) There are fewer guns on the streets than ten years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. If a teen has been arrested, and has an already existing risk factor, the odds of the youth committing murder are ____________________.

2. What does the author argue is the other factor when, combined with rick factors, influences homicide rates?

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

4. What clothing item differentiates the levels of progress within the center?

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

(see the answer key)

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