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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Garbarino call the spiritual being within a child?
(a) The holy self.
(b) The sacred self.
(c) The divine self.
(d) The religious self.

2. Why do some children who are not abused become violent children?
(a) Their parents are withdrawn, but not abusive.
(b) Their parents are antisocial.
(c) Their parents are bad.
(d) Their parents are often gone.

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

4. What two patterns of fathers are common in the history of violent boys?
(a) An absent father and a loving father.
(b) An absent father and an abusive father.
(c) An abuse father and a loving father.
(d) An abusive father and a strict father.

5. What is compartmentalization?
(a) The tendency to disassociate from emotions.
(b) The tendency to avoid emotional attachment.
(c) The tendency to put feelings such as fear in the forefront.
(d) The tendency to put feelings such as fear out of consciousness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Garbarino accuse people of not wanting to do, when it comes to violent youth?

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

3. What does Garbarino claim is inside almost every violent teenager?

4. Why does this development hit smaller cities even harder?

5. What other areas in the world have seen youth violence due to racism and cultural values?

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